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been called Caractacussla, or Chlodovigia, it would have been 
sung by knightly troubadours and minstrels, in every corner of 
feudal Europe ? Can you fancy this flower, " so yong, so fresh 
of hew," to have delighted Chaucer, under the title of Sirhum- 
vlweydavyo, or Sirwilliamherschellia, or Doctorjohnsonia ? Can 
you imagine the gentle Emilie, in the garden gathering flowers — 
" To make a sotel garland for her hed, 
While as an angel, hevonlich, she song : — " 
Can you imagine this gentle creature, or any other, of whom it 
might be said, 
" Her cheare was simple as bird in bower, 
As white as lilly, or rose in rise :" 
Can you picture to yourself such maidens, weaving in their 
golden tresses, Sy^ni^horicarpus vulgaris, Tricocldoa, Tradescantia, 
Calopogon ? &c., &c. Or conceive for a moment some Perdita of 
the present day, singing in her sweetest tones : 
" Here's flowers for you — 
Pyxidanthera, Rudbeekia, Sclerolepis, 
Escholtzia, that goes to bed with the sun," &e., &c. 
Fancy her calling for fragrant blossoms to bestow on her young 
maiden friends : " Spargonophorus, Rhododendron, Sabbatia, Schi- 
zea, Schollera, Schistidium, Waldsteinia, and the tall Vernonia, 
Noveborences," &c., &c. Do you suppose that if she had gone 
on in that style, Florizel would have whispered : " When you 
speak sweet, I'd have you do it ever ?" No, indeed ! he would 
nave stopped his ears, and turned to Mopsa and Dorcas. Fancy 
