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WILD FLOWER FAMILIES 



lished in 1824, Professor Bigelow wrote of it as 

 the Bluish Houstonia, evidently a translation of : ts 

 botanical name. In 1827 Professor Nuttall wrote 

 that he knew of no " common prevailing name " 



ftwtograph by A. H. Verrill 



for it. A little later it was called by some of the 

 botanists " Venus' Pride," scarcely a happy term 

 for so demure a blossom. The flowers seem to 

 have been first called Quaker Bonnets in Pennsyl- 

 vania, and the name has since been corrupted to 



