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gina from the other thyme-leaved ones, to give her due pre- 

 cedence ; and the rest will then arrange themselves into 

 twenty families, easily distinguishable and memorable. 



I have chosen for Veronica Regina, the brave Icelandic one, 

 which pierces the snow in first spring, with lovely small shoots 

 of perfectly set leaves, no larger than a grain of wheat ; the 



FIG. 4. 



flowers in a lifted cluster of five or six together, not crowded, 



yet not loose ; large, for veronica about the size of a silver 



penny, or say half an inch across deep blue, with ruby centre. 



My woodcut, Fig. 4, is outlined * from the beautiful en- 



* ' Abstracted ' rather, I should have said, and with perfect skill, by 

 Mr. Collingwood (the joint translator of Xenophon's Economics for the 

 ' Bibliotheca Pastorum '). So also the next following cut, Fig. 5. 



