192 PROSERPINA. 



the same name, Rhodiad, is to be used by English 

 scholars also for all tribes of this group except the five 

 principal ones. 



24. Farther, in every gens of plants, one will be 

 chosen as the representative, which, if any, will be that 

 examined and described in the course of this work, if I 

 have opportunity of doing so. 



This representative flower will always be a wild one, 

 and of the simplest form which completely expresses the 

 character of the plant ; existing divinely and unchange- 

 ably from age to age, un grieved by man's neglect, and 

 inflexible by his power. 



And this divine character will be expressed by the 

 epHhet ' Sacred, ' taking the sense in which we attach it 

 to a dominant and christened majesty, when it belongs 

 to the central type of any forceful order ; ' Quercus 

 sacra,' ' Laurus sacra,' etc., the word 'Benedicta,' or 

 ' Benedictus,' being used instead, if the plant be too 

 humble to bear, without some discrepancy and unbecom- 

 ingness, the higher title ; as 4 Carduus Benedictus,' Holy 

 Thistle. 



25. Among the gentes of flowers bearing girls' names, 

 the dominant one wi]l be simply called the Queen, c Rose 

 Regina,' 6 Rose the Queen' (the English wild rose); 

 i Clarissa Regina, ' 'Clarissa the Queen' (Mountain 

 Pink) ; ' Lucia Regina, ' 4 Lucy the Queen ' (Spring 

 Gentian), or in simpler English, ' Lucy of Teesdale,' as 

 J Harry of Monmouth. ' The ruling flowers of groups 



