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 Oldenlandia ccerulea. 
Afterward they were changed back to Houstonia 
ccerelea by the great Mr. Gray himself. How much 
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