IV. G I U LI ETTA. 97 



The above five kinds are given by Sow- 



erby as British, but I have never found the 



Austriaca myself, 

 (vi.) Giulietta Amara. Xorwegian. Very quaint 



in blossom outline, like a little blue rabbit 



with long ears. D. 1169. 



IT. Xobody tells me why either this last or No. 5 have 

 been called bitter ; and Gerarde's five kinds are distin- 

 guished only by colour blue, red, white, purple, and 

 "the dark, of an overworn ill favoured colour, which 

 maketh it to differ from all others of his kind." I find 

 no account of this ill-favoured one elsewhere. The white 

 is my Soror Regiuae ; the red must be the Austriaca; but 

 the purple and overworn ones are perhaps now overworn 

 indeed. All of them must have been more common in 

 Gerarde's time than now, for he goes on to say " Mi 1k- 

 woort is called Avibarualis flos* so called because it doth 

 specially flourish in the Crosse or Gang-weeke, or Roga- 

 tion-weeke, of which flowers, the maidens which use in 

 the countries to walk the procession do make themselves 

 garlands and nosegaies, in English we may call it Crosse 

 flower, Gang flower, Rogation flower, and Milk-woort." 



18. Above, at page 197, vol. i., in first arranging the 

 Cythericlcs, I too hastily concluded that the ascription to 

 this plant of helpfulness to nursing mothers was 'more 

 than ordinarily false " ; thinking that its rarity could 

 never have allowed it to be fairly tried. If indeed true, 



or in any degree true, the flower has the best right of all 



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