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as easy of retention as their English substitutes ? 

 Shall we say that Campanula harhata is not a 

 truer title than " Bearded Harebell " for a plant 

 that has nothing of the English Harebell about 

 it except " family " ? Or shall we say that it is 

 not just as easy, as the botanist already quoted 

 points out, to remember A triplex deltoidea as 

 " Deltoid-leaved Orache " ? Those who, advocating 

 Enghsh nomenclature to this extent in the Alps, 

 plead the cause of intelligible simplicity, irresistibly 

 recall the complicated efforts of those who aim 

 at the Simple Life. And, on the whole, their 

 efforts are no less ugly. 



But let us not stand haggling over such con- 

 tentious matter. Revenojis a nos moutons ! 



Scanning these fields and slopes, noting " the 

 lavish hand of June," and remembering that July's 

 hand will be no whit less lavish, we realise without 

 any difficulty that there are more than twice as 

 many flowering plants indigenous to Switzerland 

 as in the whole of the British Isles. Indeed, 

 June alone could easily convince us of this. What 

 wealth I One feels that the proper way, the 

 only adequate way of enjoying it is to abjure 

 hotels and camp out in the midst of it all. 

 When the meal- time beU rings out from the 

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