GIULIETTA. 



(nr.) Giulietta Cisterciana. Its present name * Cal- 

 carea,' is meant, in botanic Latin, to express its 

 growth on limestone or chalk mountains. But 

 we might as well call the South Down sheep, 

 Calcareous mutton. My epithet will rightly 

 associate it with the Burgundian hills round 

 Cluny and Citeaux. Its ground leaves are 

 much larger than those of the Depressa ; the 

 flower a little larger, but very pale, 

 (v.) Giulietta Austriaca. Pink, and very lovely, with 

 bold cluster of ground leaves, but itself minute 

 almost dwarf. Called ' small bitter milkwort ' 

 by S. How far distinct from the next follow- 

 ing one, Norwegian, is not told. 



The above five kinds are given by Sowerby 

 as British, but I have never found the Austriaca 

 myself. 



(vi.) Giulietta Amara. Norwegian. Very quaint in 

 blossom outline, like a little blue rabbit with 

 long ears. D. 1169. 



17. Nobody tells me why either this last or No. 5 have 

 been called bitter ; and Gerarde's five kinds are distinguished 

 only by colour blue, red, white, purple, and " the dark, of 

 an overworn ill-favoured colour, which maketh it to differ 

 from all others of his kind." I find no account of this ill- 

 favoured one elsewhere. The white is my Soror Reginse ; 

 the red must be the Austriaca ; but the purple and overworn 

 ones are perhaps now overworn indeed. All of them must 

 have been more common in Gerarde's time than now, for he 

 goes on to say "Milkwcort is called Ambarualis jlos, so called 

 because it doth specially nourish in the Crosse or Gang-weeke, 

 or Rogation-weeke, of which flowers, the maidens which use 

 in the countries to walk the procession do make themselves 

 garlands and nosegaies, in English we may call it Crosse 

 flower, Gang flower, Rogation flower, and Milk-woori" 



18. Above, at page 151, vol. i., in first arranging the 

 Cytherides, I too hastily concluded that the ascription to this 

 plant of helpfulness to nursing mothers was ' more than ordi- 



