Art Out-of-Doors 



not know that I can illustrate it better than 

 by quoting a paragraph printed not long ago 

 in a children's magazine which, month by 

 month, devotes several pages to out-door 

 things with the professed desire that our 

 young folk may be led to study Nature for 

 themselves in her woods and fields. 



This paragraph began with a reference to 

 some previous article in which a familiar 

 little plant had been called Epigcea repens 

 instead of trailing-arbutus or May-flower; 

 and then it said : 



If we begin to use the scientific names, where 

 shall we stop ? The next thing will be to call the 

 delicate spring-beauty, Claytonia Virginica. . . . 

 (By the way, the botanists seem to have had a 

 hobby for calling things after Virginia and Carolina 

 and Canada ; when they got tired of using these 

 they named all the rest of the plants after foreign 

 travellers.) But there is worse yet to come. . . . 

 The truth is that the botanists themselves some- 

 times have two or three names for the same plant. 

 . . . And just think how we have been twitted 

 with having different common names in different 

 parts of the country ! Since I can remember, the 

 dear little bluets were named Oldejilandia ccerulea. 

 Afterward they were changed back to Houstonia 

 cccrelea by the great Mr. Gray himself. How much 



