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mistaking the ' Favor ' or Grace done by God to good men, 

 for the ' Misericordia,' or mercy, shown by Him to bad ones ; 

 and so, in practical life, finally substituting ' Grace ' as a word 

 of extreme and mortal prayer, for * Merci,' and of late using 

 ' Merci ' in a totally ridiculous and perverted power, for the 

 giving of thanks (or refusal of offered good) : while the liter- 

 ally derived word ' Charite ' has become, in the modern mind, 

 a gift, whether from God or man, only to the wretched, never 

 to the happy : and lastly, ' Grace ' in its physical sense has 

 been perverted, by their social vulgarity, into an idea, whether 

 with respect to form or motion, commending itself rather to 

 the ballet-master than either to the painter or the priest. 



For these reasons, the Master name of this family, for my 

 French pupils, must be simply 'Bhodiades,' which will bring, 

 for them, the entire group of names into easily remembered 

 symmetry ; and the English form of the same name, Bhodiad, 

 is to be used by English scholars also for all tribes of this 

 group except the five principal ones. 



24. Farther, in every gens of plants, one will be chosen as 

 the representative, which, if any, will be that examined and 

 described in the course of this work, if I have opportunity of 

 doing so. 



This representative flower will always be a wild one, and of 

 the simplest form which completely expresses the character of 

 the plant ; existing divinely and unchangeably from age to 

 age, un grieved by man's neglect, and inflexible by his power. 



And this divine character will be expressed by the epithet 

 ' Sacred,' taking the sense in which we attach it to a dominant 

 and christened majesty, when it belongs to the central type 

 of any forceful order ; ' Quercus sacra,' ' Lauras sacra,' etc., 

 the word ' Benedicta,' or ' Benedictus/ being used instead, 

 if the plant be too humble to bear, without some discrepancy 

 and unbecomingness, the higher title ; as ( Carduus Bene- 

 dictus,' Holy Thistle. 



25. Among the gentes of flowers bearing girls' names, the 

 dominant one will be simply called the Queen, ' Eose Eegina,' 

 'Bose the Queen ' (the English wild rose) ; 'Clarissa Eegina,' 

 s Clarissa the Queen ' (Mountain Pink) ; ' Lucia Eegina, 1 



