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28. The remaining groups are in great part 

 natural ; but I separate for subsequent study five 

 orders of supreme domestic utility, the Mallows, 

 Currants, Pease,* Cresses, and Cranesbills, from 

 those which, either in fruit or blossom, are for 

 finer pleasure or higher beauty. I think it will be 

 generally interesting for children to learn those five 

 names as an easy lesson, and gradually discover, 

 wondering, the world that they include. I will give 

 their terminology at length, separately. 



29. One cannot, in all groups, have all the divi- 

 sions of equal importance ; the Mallows are only 

 placed with the other four for their great value 

 in decoration of cottage gardens in autumn : and 

 their softly healing qualities as a tribe. They will 

 mentally connect the whole useful group with 

 the three great ^Esculapiadae, Cinchona, Coffea, 

 and Camellia. 



30. Taking next the water-plants, crowned in the 

 DROSIDi-E, which include the five great families, 

 Juncus, Jacinthus, Amaryllis, Iris, and Lilium, and 

 are masculine in their Greek name because their two 

 first groups, Juncus and Jacinthus, are masculine, I 



* The reader must observe that the positions given in this more 

 developed system to any flower do not interfere with arrangements 

 either formerly or hereafter given for memoria technica. The name ot 

 the pea, for instance (alata), is to be learned first among the twelve 

 cinqfoils, p. 214, above; then transferred to its botanical place. 



