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stomus, Blethisa quadricollis (Americana mi), 
Carabus, Horia (which for several years oc- 
curred in profusion on the sands beyond Mount 
Auburn), with others, have entirely disappeared 
from their former haunts, driven away, or exter- 
minated, perhaps, by the changes effected 
therein. There may still remain in your vicin- 
ity some sequestered spots, congenial to these 
and other rarities, which may reward the botan- 
ist and the entomologist who will search them 
carefully. Perhaps you may find there the 
pretty coccinella-shaped, silver-margined Omo- 
phron, or the still rarer Panagewus fasciatus, of 
which I once took two specimens on Welling- 
ton’s Hill, but have not seen it since.” Is not 
this, indeed, handling one’s specimens “gently 
as if you loved them,” as Isaak Walton bids 
the angler do with his worm? 
There is this merit, at least, among the 
coarser crew of imported flowers, that they 
bring their own proper names with them, and 
we know precisely with whom we have to deal. 
In speaking of our own native flowers we must 
either be careless and inaccurate, or else resort 
sometimes to the Latin, in spite of the indigna- 
tion of friends. There is something yet to be 
said on this point. In England, where the old 
household and monkish names adhere, they are 
sufficient for popular and poetic purposes, and 
