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or houstonia ? Of course a list pointing the 

 other way might be compiled as easily as 

 this one could be greatly extended. I do 

 not mean to say that all scientific plant- 

 names are musical and all vernacular ones 

 are ugly ; only that the balance of beauty is 

 perhaps in favor of the scientific names, and 

 that it is certainly foolish to arraign them as 

 a whole from the euphonic standpoint. 



It is still more foolish, however, to imply 

 that a hard and fast line can be drawn be- 

 tween the two classes of names. If we refuse 

 to be /^scientific," what shall we call a 

 dahlia, or an aster, a wistaria, a fuchsia, an 

 azalea, a chrysanthemum, a rhododendron, 

 or a sassafras ? Must we call an arethusa 

 and a calypso each simply an orchid to avoid 

 scientific terminology? And, again, is 

 calypso or arethusa a name unfit for poetic or 

 any other " fine " kind of use ? 



The children who read this paragraph ought 

 to have been given very different lessons. 

 They should have been told that no line can 

 be drawn between the two classes of plant- 

 names ; that sometimes the scientific name 

 is perfectly familiar and common and, in- 



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