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partly hoggish manner, drenched and desolate ; and with 

 something of demoniac temper got into its calyx, so that 

 it quarrels with, and bites the corolla ; something of 

 gluttonous and greasy habit got into its leaves; a dis- 

 comfortable sensuality, even in its desolation. Perhaps 

 a penguin -ish life would be truer of it than a piggish, 

 the nest of it being indeed on the rock, or morassy rock- 

 investiture, like a sea-bird's on her rock ledge. 



5. I have hunted through seven treatises on Botany, 

 namely, London's Encyclopaedia, Balfour, Grindon, Oli- 

 ver, Baxter of Oxford, Lindley ( c Ladies' Botany '), and 

 Figuier, without being able to find the meaning of ; Len- 

 tibulariacese,' to which tribe the Pinguicula is said by 

 them all (except Figuier) to belong. It may perhaps be 

 in Sowerby :* but these above-named treatises are pre- 

 cisely of the kind with which the ordinary scholar must 

 be content : and in all of them he has to learn this long, 

 worse than useless, word, under which he is betrayed 

 into classing together two orders naturally quite distinct, 

 the Butterworts and the Bladderworts. 



Whatever the name may mean it is bad Latin. 

 There is such a word as Lenticularis there is no Lenti- 

 bularis ; and it must positively trouble us no longer.f 



* It is not. (Resolute negative from A., unsparing of time for me; 

 and what a state of things it all signifies !) 



f With the following three notes, ' A ' must become a definitely and 

 gratefully interpreted letter. I am indebted for the first, conclusive 



