I08 PROSERPINA. 



in this definition of poppies, nothing whatever is 

 said about the root ; and not only I don't know 

 myself what a poppy root is like, but in all 

 Sowerby's poppy section, I find no word whatever 

 about that matter. 



10. Leaving, however, for the present, the root 

 unthought of, and contenting myself with Dr. 

 Lindley's characteristics, I shall place, at the head 

 of the whole group, our common European wild 

 poppy, Papaver Rhoeas, and, with this, arrange the 

 nine following other flowers thus, — opposite. 



I must be content at present with determining the 

 Latin names for the Oxford schools ; the English 

 ones I shall give as they chance to occur to me, in 

 Gerarde and the classical poets who wrote before the 

 English revolution. When no satisfactory name is to 

 be found, I must try to invent one ; as, for instance, 

 just now, I don't like Gerarde's ' Corn-rose ' for 

 Papaver Rhoeas, and must coin another ; but this 

 can't be done by thinking ; it will come into my head 

 some day, by chance. I might try at it straight- 

 forwardly for a week together, and not do it. 



The Latin names must be fixed at once, some- 

 how ; and therefore I do the best I can, keeping as 

 much respect for the old nomenclature as possible, 

 though this involves the illogical practice of giving 

 the epithet sometimes from the flower, (violaceum, 



