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impatient for answer, the particular question, ' What is 

 a poppy ? ' I choose, for instance, to call this yellow 

 flower a poppy, instead of a " likeness to poppy," 

 which the botanists meant to call it, in their bad 

 Greek. I choose also 

 to call a poppy, what 

 the botanists have called 

 " glaucous thing," (glau- 

 cium). But where and 

 when shall I stop calling 

 things poppies ? This 

 is certainly a question 

 to be settled at once, 

 with others appertain- 

 ing to it. 



7. In the first place, 

 then, I mean to call - 

 every flower either one 

 thing or another, and 

 not an ' aceous ' thing, 

 only half something or 

 half another. I mean 

 to call this plant now in my hand, either a poppy 

 or not a poppy ; but not poppaceous. And this 

 other, either a thistle or not a thistle ; but not 

 thistlaceous. And this other, either a nettle or not 

 a nettle ; but not nettlaceous. I know it will be 



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