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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 most superficial acquaintance with his 
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