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itself from, the ground, rock, or tree-trunk on. which 

 it is rooted, may of course most naturally and 

 accurately be called ' Aeria,' as it has long been 

 popularly known in English by the name of Air- 

 plant. 



Thus we have one general name for all these 

 creatures, ' Ophryd ' ; and three family or group 

 names, Contorta, Satyrium, and Aeria, — every one 

 of these titles containing as much accurate fact 

 about the thing named as I can possibly get 

 packed into their syllables : and I will trouble 

 my young readers with no more divisions of the 

 order. And if their parents, tutors, or governors, 

 after this fair warning, choose to make them learn, 

 instead, the seventy-seven different names with which 

 botanist- heraldries have beautifully ennobled the 

 family, — all I can say is, let them at least begin 

 by learning them themselves. They will be found 

 in due order in pages 1084, 1085 of Loudon's 

 Cyclopaedia.* 



12. But now, farther: the student will observe 

 that the name of the total order is Greek ; while 



I offer a sample of two dozen for good papas and mammas to 

 begin with : — 



Angraecum. Corallorrhiza. Ornilhidium. Prescotia. 



Anisopetalum. Cryptarrhena. Ornithocephalus. Renanthera. 



Brassavola. Eulophia. Platanthera. Rodriguezia. 



Brassia. Gymnadenia. Pleurothallis. Stenorhyncus. 



Caelogyne. Microstylis. Pogonia. Trizeuxis. 



Calopogon. Octomeria. Polystachya. Xylobium. 



