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gather together the three orders of TRITONIDES, 

 which are notably trefoil; the NAIADES, notably 

 quatrefoil, but for which I keep their present pretty 

 name ; and the B ATRAC HIDES,* notably cinqfoil, 

 for which I keep their present ugly one, only 

 changing it from Latin into Greek. 



31. I am not sure of being forgiven so readily 

 for putting the Grasses, Sedges, Mosses, and Lichens 

 together, under the great general head of Deme- 

 tridae. But it seems to me the mosses and lichens 

 belong no less definitely to Demeter, in being 

 the first gatherers of earth on rock, and the first 

 coverers of its sterile surface, than the grass which 

 at last prepares it to the foot and to the food 

 of man. And with the mosses I shall take all 

 the especially moss-plants which otherwise are 

 homeless or companionless, Drosera, and the 

 like, and as a connecting link with the flowers 

 belonging to the Dark Kora, the two strange 

 orders of the Ophryds and Agarics. 



32. Lastly will come the orders of flowers 

 which may be thought of as belonging for the 

 most part to the Dark Kora of the lower world, 

 — having at least the power of death, if not its 

 terror, given them, together with offices of comfort 



* The amphibious habit of this race is to me of more importance 

 than its outlaid slructure. 



