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you the learned folk have invented for it 1 It 

 has been christened Iris EoUnsoni ! These homely 

 English patronymics offer a serious obstacle to those 

 who love to commemorate their affection for the 

 departed by flowers which return year by year. 

 It must be seldom that a modern Bion shall 

 find a Moschus to marshal sweet mourners at his 

 bier 



' Ye flowers, sigh forth your odours with red buds ; 

 Flush deep, ye roses and anemones ; 

 And more than ever now, hyacinth, show 

 Your written sorrows the sweet singer's dead.' 



To find one of the congeners of Eobinson we need 

 only turn to the list of lilies; and who the deuce 

 was Brown ? we murmur pettishly, that he should 

 make a godchild of the noble Lilium Broumi, with 

 its purple trumpets, lined with white satin. Lilies 

 on the whole have fared better than other plants 

 when names were served out ; for here are tigrinum 

 and pardalinum, the tiger and leopard lilies, in 

 gorgeous livery of orange and sable. Yet a recent 

 importation from Mexico, described as 'one of the 

 most beautiful of all,' has to carry a barbarous 

 barrow-load of polysyllables Lilium Eloomerianum 



