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the spot, or by the gardener who grows them ; but 

 will not be acknowledged by Proserpina. Never- 

 theless, the arbitrary reduction under Ordines, 

 Gentes, and Familia;, is always to be remembered 

 as one of massive practical convenience only ; 

 and the more subtle arborescence of the infinitely 

 varying structures may be followed, like a human 

 genealogy, as far as we please, afterwards ; when 

 once we have got our common plants clearly 

 arranged and intelligibly named. 



22. But now we find ourselves in the presence 

 of a new difficulty, the greatest we have to deal 

 with in the whole matter. 



Our new nomenclature, to be thoroughly good, 

 must be acceptable to scholars in the five great 

 languages, Greek, Latin, French, Italian, and 

 English ; and it must be acceptable by them in 

 teaching the native children of each country. I 

 shall not be satisfied, unless I can feel that the 

 little maids who gather their first violets under the 

 Acropolis rock, may receive for them ^Eschylean 

 words again with joy. I shall not be content, unless 

 the mothers watching their children at play in the 

 Ceramicus of Paris, under the scarred ruins of her 

 Kings' palace, may yet teach them there to know 

 the flowers which the Maid of Orleans gathered at 

 Domrcmy. I shall not be satisfied unless every 



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