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and very short-lived. Gelasinos, I find, means "a 

 smiling dimple" a pretty name that ought to have 

 been given to a better thing. Habranthus I have 

 attempted in a hot corner out of doors, but without 

 success. As a genus, habranthus seems to have been 

 swept away altogether, and referred to zephyranthes 

 and hippeastrum. If I had known this sooner, perhaps 

 I should not have played the fool with them in the 

 open air. 



It must be rather trying to an established genus 

 to be suddenly thrust into another. I wonder if 

 this will ever happen to us ? Perhaps in a few 

 millions of years genus homo as he is to-day will be 

 referred by genus homo, as he is then, to pithecan- 

 thropus. By the way, how do we know that pithe- 

 canthropus couldn't talk ? Who can prove him 

 dumb ? Or, perhaps, since the gulf between the 

 coming man and ourselves may be more consider- 

 able than that between us and our own ancestors, 

 the anthropologists of that time will calmly throw us 

 back to a merry lemur who rejoiced in Tertiary times, 

 and reserve genus homo for themselves. On the 

 other hand, they may leave us alone and start a 

 grand new genus. They will probably look plain, 

 those people of the future, but their brains, to ours, 

 will be as ours to the uncalculating opossum. 



Hedychium coronarium, the Indian garland flower, 

 is tender, and belongs to the stove. In mine he is 

 monarch of all he surveys. Hedychium Gardnerianum, 

 however, may be called hardy here in a snug corner, 

 and it blooms nobly during August with agapanthus, 



