118 PROSERPINA. 



Both the Lapland and Norwegian flowers are drawn 

 with their stems wavy, though upright a rare and 

 pretty habit of growth. 



14. (8) Suecica, D. 26, named awkwardly Sceptrum 

 Carol inum, in honour of Charles XII. It is the largest 

 of all the species drawn in D., and contrasts strikingly 

 with (4) and (5) in the strict uprightness of its stem. 

 The corolla is closed at the extremity, which is red ; 

 the body of the flower pale yellow. Grows in marshy 

 and shady woods, near Upsal. Linn., Flora Suecica, 

 553. 



The many-lobed but united leaves, at the root five or 

 six inches long, are irregularly beautiful. 



15. These eight species are all I can specify, having 

 no pictures of the others named by London, eleven, 

 making nineteen altogether, and I wish I could find a 

 twentieth and draw them all, but the reader may be well 

 satisfied if he clearly know these eight. The group they 

 form is an entirely distinct one, exactly intermediate 

 between the Vestals and Draconids, and cannot be rightly 

 attached to either ; for it is Draconid in structure and 

 affinity Vestal in form and I don't see how to get the 

 connection of the three families rightly expressed with- 

 out taking the Draconidse out of the groups belonging 

 to the dark Kora, and placing them next the Vestals, 

 with the Monachae between ; for indeed Linaria and 

 several other Draconid forms are entirely innocent and 

 beautiful, and even the Foxglove never does any real 



