Proserpina, Volume 2 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers by John Ruskin
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Farther, that all plants _are_ petaled and sepaled, and never mere cups in saucers, is a great fact, not to be dwelt on in a note. [12] Our 'Lucia Nivea,' 'Blanche Lucy;' in present botany, Bog bean! having no connection whatever with any manner of bean, but only a slight resemblance to bean-_leaves_ in its own lower ones. Compare Ch. IV. § 11. [13] It is not. (Resolute negative from A., unsparing of time for me; and what a state of things it all signifies!) [14] With the following three notes, 'A' must become a definitely and gratefully interpreted letter. I am indebted for the first, conclusive in itself, but variously supported and confirmed by the two following, to R.J. Mann, Esq., M.D., long ago a pupil of Dr. Lindley's, and now on the council of Whitelands College, Chelsea:--for the second, to Mr. Thomas Moore, F.L.S., the kind Keeper of the Botanic Garden at Chelsea; for the third, which will be farther on useful to us, to Miss Kemm, the botanical lecturer at Whitelands. (1) There is no explanation of Lentibulariaceæ in Lindley's 'Vegetable Kingdom.' He was not great in that line. The term is, however, taken from _Lenticula_, the lentil, in allusion to the lentil-shaped air-bladders of the typical genus _Utricularia_. The change of the c into b may possibly have been made only from some euphonic fancy of the contriver of the name, who, I think, was Rich. But I somewhat incline myself to think that the _tibia_, a pipe or flute, may have had something to do with it. The _tibia_ may possibly have been |
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