212 PROSERPINA. 



graving D. 342,* there called 'fruticulosa,' from the number 

 of the young shoots. 



14. Beneath the Regina, come the twenty easily distin- 

 guished families, namely : 



I . Chamsedrys. * Ground-oak.' I cannot tell why so 

 called its small and rounded leaves having nothing like oak 

 leaves about them, except the serration, which is common to 

 half, at least, of all leaves that grow. But the idea is all over 

 Europe, apparently. Fr. ' petit chene : ' German and English 

 4 Germander,' a merely corrupt form of Ckamsedrys. 



The representative English veronica "Germander Speed- 

 well " very prettily drawn in S. 986 ; too tall and weedlike 

 in D. 448. 



2. Hederifolia. Ivy-leaved : but more properly, cymbalaria- 

 leaved. It is the English field representative, though blue- 

 flow 7 ered, of the Byzantine white veronica, V. Cymbalaria, 

 very beautifully drawn in G. 9. Hederifolia well in D. 428. 



3. Agrestis. Fr. 'Rustique.' We ought however clearly 

 to understand whether 'agrestis,' used by English botanists, 

 is meant to imply a literally field flow r er, or only a ' rustic ' 

 one, which might as properly grow in a wood. I shall always 

 myself use ' agrestis ' in the literal sense, and * rustica ' for 

 'rustique.' I see no reason, in the present case, for separat- 

 ing the Polite from the Rustic flower : the agrestis, D. 449 



* Of the references, henceforward necessary to the books I have used 

 as authorities, the reader will please note the following abbreviations : 



C. Curtis's Magazine of Botany. 



D. Flora Danica. 



F. Figuier. 



G. Sibthorpe's Flora Grseca. 



L. Linnaeus. Systema Naturae. 



L. S. Linnseus's Flora Suecica. But till we are quite used to the other 

 letters, I print this reference in words. 



L. N. William Curtis's Flora Londinensis. Of the exquisite plates 

 engraved for this book by James Sowerby, note is taken in the 

 close of next chapter. 



O. Sowerby's English Wild Flowers; the old edition in thirty-two 

 thin volumes far the best. 



S. Sowerby's English Wild Flowers; the modern edition in ten vol- 

 umes. 



