VI. MONACHA. 113 



V. Humifusa, officinalis, and, 



~Y. Humifusa, liirsuta: the last seems to me extremely 

 interesting, and I hope to find it and study it 

 carefully. 



I>y this arrangement we shall have only twenty-one 

 species to remember: the one which chiefly decorates 

 the ground again dividing into the above three. 



6. These matters being set right, I pass to the busi- 

 ness in hand, which is to define as far as possible the 

 subtle relations between the Veronicas and Draconidse, 

 and again between these and the tribe at present called 

 labiate. In my classification above, vol. i., p. 200, the 

 Draconidse include the Nightshades; but this was an 

 oversight. Atropa belongs properly to the following 

 class, Moiridse; and my Draconids are intended to in- 

 clude only the two great families of Personate and Rin- 

 gent flowers, which in some degree resemble the head of 

 an animal: the representative one being what we call 

 snapdragon,' but the French, careless of its snapping 

 power, calf's muzzle "Muflier, muflande, or muffle de 

 Yeau." Rousseau, 'Lettres,' p. 19. 



7. As I examine his careful and sensible plates of it, 

 I chance also on a bit of his text, which, extremely wise 

 and generally useful, I translate forthwith : 



" I understand, my dear, that one is vexed to take so 

 much trouble without learning the names of the plants 

 one examines ; but I confess to you in good faith that 

 it never entered into my plan to spare you this little 



