Art Out-of-Doors 



more about America than that it included 

 these three provinces ? And is there not a 

 very interesting significance in the use of a 

 personal appellation when it is recognized as 

 referring to the first discoverer or describer 

 of a plant ? 



Again, these children should have been 

 told that the more anxious they are to learn 

 all the common names of plants, the more 

 needful it is that they should learn their 

 scientific names. How often, when we dis- 

 cover a strange wild flower, or even a new 

 garden-flower, do we find anyone to tell us 

 its English name ? But any book on botany 

 will tell it, if we know how to determine its 

 scientific name. " Perhaps someone will 

 make a dictionary " of common plant-names, 

 says the author of our foolish paragraph. 

 This is just what has been done by botanists 

 in their handbooks, and what can never be 

 done by any other method than theirs ; for 

 how can a plant be painted so that its right 

 to a name is made plain, except by means of 

 the precisely descriptive terms which botan- 

 ists employ? Any person who has even 

 the m.ost superficial acquaintance with his 



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