[38] Carduus Arvensis. 'Creeping Thistle,' in Sowerby; why, I cannot conceive, for there is no more creeping in it than in a furzebush. But it especially haunts foul and neglected ground; so I keep the Latin name, translating 'Waste-Thistle.' I could not show the variety of the curves of the involucre without enlarging; and if, on this much increased scale, I had tried to draw the flower, it would have taken Mr. Allen and me a good month's more work. And I had no more a month than a life, to spare: so the action only of the spreading flower is indicated, but the involucre drawn with precision. [39] The florets gathered in the daisy are cinquefoils, examined closely. No system founded on colour can be very general or unexceptionable: but the splendid purples of the pansy, and thistle, which will be made one of the lower composite groups under Margarita, may justify the general assertion of this order's being purple. [40] See Miss Yonge's exhaustive account of the name, 'History of Christian Names,' vol. i., p. 265. [41] (Du Cange.) The word 'Margarete' is given as heraldic English for pearl, by Lady Juliana Berners, in the book of St. Albans. [42] Recent botanical research makes this statement more than dubitable. Nevertheless, on no other supposition can the forms and action of tree-branches, so far as at present known to me, be yet clearly accounted for. [43] Not always in muscular power; but the framework on which strong muscles are to act, as that of an insect's wing, or its jaw, is never insectile. [44] It is one of the three cadences, (the others being of the words rhyming to 'mind' and 'way,') used by Sir Philip Sidney in his marvellous paraphrase of the 55th Psalm. [45] Lectures on the Families of Speech, by the Rev. F. Farrer Longman, 1870. Page 81. [46] I only profess, you will please to observe, to ask questions in Proserpina. Never to answer any. But of course this chapter is to introduce some further inquiry in another place. [47] See Introduction, pp. 5-8. [48] See Sowerby's nomenclature of the flower, vol. ix., plate 1703. [49] Linnaeus used this term for the oleanders; but evidently with less accuracy than usual. [50] "[Greek: anthe porphuroeide]" says Dioscorides, of the race generally,--but "[Greek: anthe de hupoporphura]" of this particular one. [51] I offer a sample of two dozen for good papas and mammas to begin with:-- Angraecum. Anisopetalum. Brassavola. Brassia. Caelogyne. Calopogon. Corallorrhiza. Cryptarrhena. Eulophia. Gymnadenia. Microstylis. Octomeria. Ornithidium. Ornithocephalus. Platanthera. Pleurothallis. Pogonia. Polystachya. Prescotia. Renanthera. Rodriguezia. Stenorhyncus. Trizeuxis. Xylobium. [52] Compare Chapter V., Sec. 7. [53] "Jacinthus Jurae," changed from "Hyacinthus Comosus." [54] "Cantando, e scegliendo fior di fiore Onde era picta tutta la sua via."--_Purg._, xxviii. 35. [55] "[Greek: kai theoisi terpna.]"