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Flowers that have given sumames to families: Pine, Primrose, ete. 
Christian names: ora, Laura, Lilian, Rhoda, etc. Names of places: 
Botany Bay, Oakham, Appleby, ete. 
Those that have been adopted as national emblems: for example, Rose, 
Thistle, Shamrock, Lily, etc. Objects of curious legends, as Anemone, 
Narcissus, ete. 
Others have given rise to parables and similes, as Trees electing a King, 
Heath in the Desert, Tares, Mustard, etc. 
Symbolical plants: Vine, Lily, Olive, Palm, etc. 
Such as have many interesting associations, as Orange Flower, Willow, 
ete. : 
Names of plants derived from birds, as Henbane, Duckweed, Canary- 
grass, etc.; from beasts, as Horse-mint, Foxtail, Bearsfoot, Cowslip, Goose- 
berry, etc. ; from insects, etc., as Bee Orchis, Toadflax, Viper’s Bugloss, etc. 
Some still more curious, as Widow’s-wail, Gipsywort, Buttercup, Ba- 
chelor’s Buttons, etc. 
Some pleasing and elegant: these are Poor-man’s Pepper, Shepherd’ s- 
purse, Haymaids, etc. 
Some are derived from the calendar of the Church and sacred seasons, 
ete., as Herb Trinty, Virgin’s Bower, Our Lady's Slipper, Lady's Mantle, 
Lady's Tresses, etc. 
We have not room for more, but we recommend the article 
to our readers, promising a more elaborate paper on this subject 
when we have leisure. In the same number we read a version of 
the following proverb, which, we think, is new to us, viz. “If the 
Oak is in leaf before the Ash, we shall have a good harvest.”? Ma- 
terials for an article on botanical proverbs are in the course of 
collection, and in this we shall have occasion to notice this pro- 
verb and its various forms. 
A Classified List of British Mosses ; compiled by GrorcEe Dixon, 
Great Ayton, near Stokesley, Yorkshire, from Wilson’s ‘ Bryo- 
logia Britannica.’ The varieties to which only the Greek letter 
is attached in W. Wilson’s work, are distinguished in this 
Catalogue by having the Greek letter spelt out thus: “ Beta,” 
“ vamma,” “ delta,” etc. 
We have run our eye over this Catalogue, a very good and 
clear one indeed, and we have not detected above twenty-five va- 
rieties distinguished by the Greek letters. There are hundreds 
of varieties in the work, and they are all, we believe, duly cata- 
