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tell my pupils something intelligible of them, a new 

 order, as it seems to me, among my Oreiades. But for 

 the present I can make no room for them, and must be 

 content, for England and the Alps, with my single class, 

 Myrtilla, including all the fruit-bearing and (more or 

 less) myrtle-leaved kinds ; and Azalea for the fruitless 

 flushing of the loftier tribes ; taking the special name 

 ( Aurora ' for the red and purple ones of Europe, and 

 resigning the already accepted ' Rhodora ' to those of 

 the Andes and Himalaya. 



17. Of which also, with help of earnest Indian bota- 

 nists, T hope nevertheless to add some little history to 

 that of our own Oreiades ; but shall set myself on the 

 most familiar of them first, as I partly hinted in taking 

 for the frontispiece of this volume two unchecked shoots 

 of our commonest heath, in their state of full lustre and 

 decline. And now I must go out and see and think 

 and for the first time in my life what becomes of all 

 these fallen blossoms, and where my own mountain Gora 

 hides herself in winter ; and where her sweet body is laid 

 in its death. 



Think of it with me, for a moment before I go. 

 That harvest of amethyst bells, over all Scottish and 

 Irish and Cumberland hill and moorland ; what sub- 

 stance is there in it, yearly gathered out of the moun- 

 tain winds, stayed there, as if the morning and evening 

 clouds had been caught out of them and woven into flow- 

 ers ; ' Ropes of sea-sand ' but that is child^s magic 



