XI. GENEALOGY. 21 3 



social vulgarity, into an idea, whether with respect 

 to form or motion, commending itself rather to the 

 ballet-master than either to the painter or the priest. 



For these reasons, the Master name of this 

 family, for my French pupils, must be simply 

 ' Rhodiades,' which will bring, for them, the entire 

 group of names into easily remembered symmetry ; 

 and the English form of the same name, Rhodiad, 

 is to be used by English scholars also for all tribes 

 of this group except the five principal ones. 



24. Farther, in every gens of plants, one will 

 be chosen as the representative, which, if any, will 

 be that examined and described in the course of 

 this work, if I have opportunity of doing so. 



This representative flower will always be a wild 

 one, and of the simplest form which completely 

 expresses the character of the plant ; existing 

 divinely and unchangeably from age to age, un- 

 grieved by man's neglect, and inflexible by his 

 power. 



And this divine character will be expressed by 

 the epithet ' Sacred,' taking the sense in which we 

 attach it to a dominant and christened majesty, 

 when it belongs to the central type of any forceful 

 order ; — ' Quercus sacra,' ' Laurus sacra/ etc., — the 

 word ' Benedicta,' or ' Benedictus,' being used instead, 

 if the plant be too humble to bear, without some 



