64 PKOSERPIXA. 



'Scorodonia' in Sowerbj, and something very ugly be- 

 sides; I'll put a bit of Teucrium Scorodonia in, to 

 finish : and now how will my young Proserpina arrange 

 her bouquet, and rank the fanrily relations to their con- 

 tentment ? 



5. She has only one kind of flowers- in her hand, as 

 botanical classification stands at present ; and whether 

 the system be more rational, or in any human sense more 

 scientific, which puts calceolaria and speedwejl together, 

 and foxglove and euphrasy ; and runs them on one 

 side into the mints, and on the other into the night- 

 shades ; naming them, meanwhile, some from diseases, 

 some from vermin, some from blockheads, and the rest 

 anyhow: or the method I am pleading for, which 

 teaches us, watchful of their seasonable return and chosen 

 abiding places, to associate in our memory the flowers 

 which truly resemble, or fondly companion, or, in time 

 kept by the signs of Heaven, succeed, each other ; and 

 to name them in some historical connection with the 

 loveliest fancies and most helpful faiths of the ancestral 

 world Proserpina be judge ; with every maid that sets 

 flowers on brow or breast from Thule to Sicily. 



6. We will unbind our bouquet, then, and putting all 

 the rest of its flowers aside, examine the range and nature 

 of the little blue cluster only. 



And first we have to note of it, that the plan of the 

 blossom in all the kinds is thtf same ; an irregular quatre- 

 foil : and irregular quatrefoils are of extreme rarity in 



