make fifty of.  This is a rank water-weed, having confused bunches of blossom and seed, like unripe currants, dangling from the leaf-axils.  So that where the little triphylla, (No. 7, above,) has only one blossom, daintily set, and well seen, this has a litter of twenty-five or thirty on a long stalk, of which only three or four are well out as flowers, and the rest are mere knobs of bud or seed.  The stalk is thick (half an inch round at the bottom), the leaves long and misshapen.  “Frequens in fossis,” D. 203.  French, Mouron d’Eau, but I don’t know the root or exact meaning of Mouron.

An ugly Australian species, ‘labiata,’ C. 1660, has leaves two inches long, of the shape of an aloe’s, and partly aloeine in texture, “sawed with unequal, fleshy, pointed teeth.”

18.  Fontium.  Brook-Veronica.  Brook-Lime, the Anglo-Saxon ‘lime’ from Latin limus, meaning the soft mud of streams.  German ‘Bach-bunge’ (Brook-purse?) ridiculously changed by the botanists into ‘Beccabunga,’ for a Latin name!  Very beautiful in its crowded green leaves as a stream-companion; rich and bright more than watercress.  See notice of it at Matlock, in ‘Modern Painters,’ vol. v.

19.  Clara.  Veronique des rochers.  Saxatilis, I suppose, in Sowerby, but am not sure of having identified that with my own favourite, for which I therefore keep the name ‘Clara,’ (see above, Sec. 9); and the other rock variety, if indeed another, mast be remembered, together with it.

20.  Glauca.  G. 7.  And this, at all events, with the Clara, is to be remembered as closing the series of twenty families, acknowledged by Proserpina.  It is a beautiful low-growing ivy-leaved type, with flowers of subdued lilac blue.  On Mount Hymettus:  no other locality given in the Flora Graeca.

15.  I am sorry, and shall always be so, when the varieties of any flower which I have to commend to the student’s memory, exceed ten or twelve in number; but I am content to gratify his pride with lengthier task, if indeed he will resign himself to the imperative close of the more inclusive catalogue, and be content to know the twelve, or sixteen, or twenty, acknowledged families, thoroughly; and only in their illustration to think of rarer forms.  The object of ‘Proserpina’ is to make him happily cognizant of the common aspect of Greek and English flowers; under the term ‘English,’ comprehending the Saxon, Celtic, Norman, and Danish Floras.  Of the evergreen shrub alluded to in Sec. 11 above, the Veronica Decussata of the Pacific, which is “a bushy evergreen, with beautifully set cross-leaves, and white blossoms scented like olea fragrans,” I should like him only to read with much surprise, and some incredulity, in Pinkerton’s or other entertaining travellers’ voyages.