LETTER III. 



THE EVENING PRIMROSE TRIBE — THE 

 MYRTLE TRIBE. 



(Plate III.) 



My last letter was so long that I fear you must 

 consider me unreasonable in expecting you to be 

 already prepared for another. And yet 1 think that 

 considering the interest you say your little girls take 

 in plants, I shall scarcely do wrong in profiting by 

 the present opportunity of going on with the subject, 

 especially as this letter is likely to be much shorter than 

 the last. They already begin to wonder where the 

 terrible difficulties lie concealed, with which you have 

 hitherto been frightened from allowing them to study 

 Botany ; but I can venture to assure them that, as 

 far as the elementary parts of the science are con- 

 cerned, there are no difficulties to encounter greater 

 than what they have already overcome. I feel per- 

 fectly sure that Crowfoots, and Poppies, and Umbel- 

 bearing plants, and Geraniums, are now familiar to 

 you, together with all their relations. We will next 

 take a family of quite another kind. 



In the meadows and woods of Europe, North 

 America, and the colder parts of Asia, are found a 

 great number of herbs which, with a great accor- 



