VI. MONACHA. 115 



the flower which, for the present, I have called Monacha, 

 but may perhaps find hereafter a better name ; this one, 

 which is the best Latin I can find for a nun of the des- 

 ert, being given to it because all the resemblance either 

 to calf or dragon has ceased in its rosy petals, and they 

 resemble the lower ones those of the mountain thyme, 

 and the upper one a softly crimson cowl or hood. 



9. This beautiful mountain flower, at present, by the 

 good grace of botanists, known as Pedicularis, from a 

 disease which it is supposed to give to sheep, is distin- 

 guished from all other Draconidae by its beautifully 

 divided leaves : while the flower itself, like, as afore- 

 said, thyme in the three lower petals, rises in the upper 

 one quite upright, and terminates in the narrow and 

 peculiar hood from which I have named it ; Monacha.' 



10. Two deeper crimson spots with white centres ani- 

 mate the colour of the lower petals in our mountain kind 

 mountain or morass ; it is vilely drawn in S. 997 

 under the name of Sylvatica, translated ' Procumbent ' ! 

 As it is neither a wood flower nor a procumbent one,* 

 and as its rosy colour is rare among morass flowers, I 

 shall call it simply Monacha Rosea. 



I have not the smallest notion of the meaning of the 



*" Stems numerous from the crown of the root-stock, dc-cum 

 bent." S. The effect of the flower upon the ground is always of 

 an extremely upright and separate plant, never appearing in clusters, 

 or in any relation to a central root. My epithet 'rosea' does not 

 deny its botanical de- or pro-cumbency. 



