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" 3 arid 4. These will be white orchis and the grass 

 flower.* 



" 5. Geum everywhere, in deep, but pure, gold, like 

 pieces of Greek mosaic. 



" 6. Soldanella, in the lower meadows, delicate, but 

 not here in masses. 



" 7. Primula Alpina, divine in the rock clefts, and on 

 the ledges changing the grey to purple, set in the drip- 

 ping caves with 



" 8. Viola ('pertinax pert) ; I want a Latin word for 

 various studies failures all to express its saucy little 

 stuck-up way, and exquisitely trim peltate leaf. I never 

 saw such a lovely perspective line as the pure front leaf 

 profile. Impossible also to get the least of the spirit of 

 its lovely dark brown fibre markings. Intensely golden 

 these dark fibres, just browning the petal a little between 

 them." 



And again in the defile of Gondo, I find " Yiola (sax- 

 atilis ?) name yet wanted ; in the most delicate studding 

 of its round leaves, like a small fern more than violet, 

 and bright sparkle of small flowers in the dark dripping 

 hollows. Assuredly delights in shade and distilling 

 moisture of rocks." 



* "A feeble little quatref oil growing one on the stem, like a Par- 

 nassia. and looking like a Parnassia that had dropped a leaf. I think it 

 drops one of its own four, mostly, and lives as three-fourths of itself, 

 for most of its time. Stamens pale gold. Root-leaves, three or four, 

 grass-like ; growing among the moist moss chiefly." 



