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represented with great clearness both in cold and 

 warm climates, it may be desirable to express this 

 their citizenship of the world in definite nomen- 

 clature. But my own method, so far as hitherto 

 developed, consists essentially in fastening the 

 thoughts of the pupil on the special character 

 of the plant, in the place where he is likely to 

 see it ; and therefore, in expressing the power of 

 its race and order in the wider world, rather 

 by reference to mythological associations than to 

 botanical structure. 



7. For instance, Plate VII. represents, of its real 

 size, an ordinary spring flower in our English 

 mountain fields. It is an average example, — nut 

 one of rare size under rare conditions, — rather 

 smaller than the average, indeed, that 1 might get 

 it well into my plate. It is one of the flowers 

 whose names I think good to change ; but I look 

 carefully through the existing titles belonging to 

 it and its fellows, that I may keep all I expedi- 

 ently can. I find, in the first place, that Linnaeus 

 called one group of its relations, Ophryds, from 

 Ophrys, — Greek for the eyebrow, — on account of 

 their resemblance to the brow of an animal frown- 

 ing, or to the overshadowing casque of a helmet. 

 I perceive this to be really a very general aspect 

 of the flower ; and therefore, no less than in respect 



