8 PROSERPINA. 



running along through the middest of the leaves, 

 fashioning the same like to laces of white and 

 green silk, very beautiful and faire to behold." 



I have said elsewhere, and can scarcely repeat 

 too often, that a • day will come when men of 

 science will think their names disgraced, instead of 

 honoured, by being used to barbarise nomenclature ; 

 I hope therefore that my own name may be kept 

 well out of the way; but, having been privileged 

 to found the School of Art in the University of 

 Oxford, I think that I am justified in requesting 

 any scientific writers who may look kindly upon 

 this book, to add such of the names suggested in 

 it as they think deserving of acceptance, to their 

 own lists of synonyms, under the head of " Schol. 

 Art. Oxon." 



The difficulties thrown in the way of any quiet 

 private student by existing nomenclature may 

 be best illustrated by my simply stating what 

 happens to myself in endeavouring to use the 

 page above facsimile'd. Not knowing how far 

 St. Bruno's Lily might be connected with my 

 own pet one, and not having any sufficient book 

 on Swiss botany, I take down Loudon's Ency- 

 clopaedia of Plants, (a most useful book, as far as 

 any book in the present state of the science can be 

 useful,) and find, under the head of Anthericum, 



