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separate for subsequent study five orders of supreme domestic 

 utility, the Mallows, Currants, Pease,* Cresses, and Cranesbills, 

 from those which, either in fruit or blossom, are for finer 

 pleasure or higher beauty. I think it will be generally inter- 

 esting for children to learn those five names as an easy lesson, 

 and gradually discover, wondering, the world that they in- 

 clude. I will give their terminology at length, separately. 



29. One cannot, in all groups, have all the divisions of equal 

 importance ; the Mallows are only placed with the other four 

 for their great value in decoration of cottage gardens in au- 

 tumn : and their softly healing qualities as a tribe. They 

 will mentally connect the whole useful group with the three 

 great .ZEsculapiadse, Cinchona, Coffea, and Camellia. 



30. Taking next the water-plants, crowned in the DROSIDJE, 

 which include the five great families, Juncus, Jacinth us, Ama- 

 ryllis, Iris, and Lilium, and are masculine in their Greek name 

 because their two first groups, Juncus and Jacinthus, are mas- 

 culine, I gather together the three orders of TRITONIDES, 

 which, are notably trefoil ; the NAIADES, notably quatrefoil, 

 but for which I keep their present pretty name ; and the 

 BATRACHIDES,f notably cinqfoil, for which I keep their 

 present ugly one, only changing it from Latin into Greek. 



31. I am not sure of being forgiven so readily for putting 

 the Grasses, Sedges, Mosses, and Lichens together, under 

 the great general head of Demetridse. But it seems to me 

 the mosses and lichens belongs no less definitely to Demeter, 

 in being the first gatherers of earth on rock, and the first cov- 

 erers of its sterile surface, than the grass which at last pre- 

 pares it to the foot and to the food of man. And with the 

 mosses I shall take all the especially moss -plants which other- 

 wise are. homeless or companionless, Drosera, and the like, 

 and as a connecting link with the flowers belonging to the 



* The reader must observe that the positions given in this more de- 

 veloped system to any flower do not interfere with arrangements either 

 formerly or hereafter given for memoria technica. The name of the 

 pea, for instance (alata) is to be learned first among the twelve cinqfoils, 

 p. 134, above ; then transferred to its botanical place. 



f The amphibious habit of this race is to me of more importance than 

 its outlaid structure. 



