III. VERONICA. 



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parti v aloeine in texture, " sawed with unequal, fleshy, 

 pointed teeth.'' 



18. Fontiuin. Brook - Veronica. Brook -Lime, the 

 Anglo-Saxon 'lime' from Latin limns, meaning the soft 

 mnd of streams. German ( Bach-bnnge ' (Brook-purse ?) 

 ridiculously changed by the botanists into ' Beccabunga,' 

 fur a Latin name ! Yery beautiful in its crowded green 

 leaves as a stream-companion ; rich and bright more than 

 watercress. See notice of it at Matlock, in l Modern 

 Painters,' vol. v. 



19. Clara. Yeroniqiie des rochers. Saxatilis, I sup- 

 pose, in Sowerby, but am not sure of having identified 

 that with my own favourite, for which I therefore keep 

 the name ' Clara,' (see above, 9) ; and the other rock 

 variety, if indeed another, must be remembered, together 

 with it. 



20. Glauca. G. 7. And this, at all events, with the 

 Clara, is to be remembered as closing the series of twenty 

 families, acknowledged by Proserpina. It is a beautiful 

 low-growing ivy-leaved type, with flowers of subdued 

 lilac blue. On Mount Hymettus: no other locality 

 given in the Flora Grgeca. 



15. I am sorry, and shall always be so, when the vari- 

 eties of any flower which I have to commend to the stu- 

 dent's memory, exceed ten or twelve in number ; but I 

 am content to gratify his pride with lengthier task, if 

 indeed he will resign himself to the imperative close of 

 the more inclusive catalogue, and be content to know 



