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the race, the cutting of the outer edge of the 

 petal as if with scissors. 



VII. Vestales.— I allow this Latin form, because 

 Hestiades would have been confused with Heliades. 

 The order is named 'of the hearth,' from its 

 manifold domestic use, and modest blossoming. 



VIII. Cytherides. — Dedicate to Venus, but in 

 all purity and peace of thought. Giuletta, for the 

 coarse, and more than ordinarily false, Polygala. 



ix. Heliades. — The sun-flowers* In English, 

 Alcestid, in honour to Chaucer and the Daisy. 



X. Delphides.— Sacred to Apollo. Granata, 

 changed from Punica, in honour to Granada and 

 the Moors. 



XI. Hesperides. — Already a name given to the 

 order. Aegle, prettier and more classic than Limonia, 

 includes the idea of brightness in the blossom. 



XII. Athenaides.— I take Fraxinus into this 

 group, because the mountain ash, in its hawthorn- 

 scented flower, scarletest of berries, and exquisitely 

 formed and finished leafage, belongs wholly to the 

 floral decoration of our native rocks, and is associated 

 with their human interests, though lightly, not less 

 spiritually, than the olive with the mind of Greece. 



* Clytia will include all the true sun-flowers, and Falconia the 

 hawkweeds ; but I have not yet completed the analysis of this vast 

 and complex order, so as to determine the limits of Margarita and 

 Alcestis. 



