132 WILD FLOWER FAMILIES 
lished in 1824, Professor Bigelow wrote of it as 
the Bluish Houstonia, evidently a translation of ‘ts 
botanical name. In 1827 Professor Nuttall wrote 
that he knew of no ‘“‘ common prevailing name” 
Lnotograph by AH. Verrill 
BLUETS 
for it. <A little later it was called by some of the 
botanists “‘ Venus’ Pride,” scarcely a happy term 
for so demure a blossom. The flowers seem to 
have been first called Quaker Bonnets in Pennsyl- 
vania, and the name has since been corrupted to 
