58 PROSERPINA. 



effected is called Parenchym, and the woody tissue, 

 Bothrenchym ; and that Parenchym is divided, by 

 a system of nomenclature which " has some ad- 

 vantages over that more commonly in use," * into 

 merenchyma, conenchyma, ovenchyma, atracten- 

 chyma, cylindrenchyma, colpenchyma, cladenchyma, 

 and prismenchyma. 



20. Take your laurel branch into your hand again. 

 There are, as you must well know, innumerable 

 shapes and orders of leaves ; — there are some like 

 paws, and some like claws ; some like fingers, and 

 some like feet ; there are endlessly cleft ones, and 

 endlessly clustered ones, and inscrutable divisions 

 within divisions of the fretted verdure ; and wrinkles, 

 and ripples, and stitchings, and hemmings, and 

 pinchings, and gatherings, and crumplings, and 

 clippings, and what not. But there is nothing so 

 constantly noble as the pure leaf of the laurel, 

 bay, orange, and olive ; numerable, sequent, perfect 

 in setting, divinely simple and serene. I shall call 

 these noble leaves ' Apolline ' leaves. They cha- 

 racterize many orders of plants, great and small, — 

 from the magnolia to the myrtle, and exquisite 

 ' myrtille ' of the hills (bilberry) ; but wherever you 

 find them, strong, lustrous, dark green, simply 



* Lindley, ' Introduction to Botany, ' vol. i. , p. 2 1 . The terms ' ' wholly 

 obsolete," says an authoritative botanical friend. Thank Heaven 



