[20] "It is Miss Cobbe, I think, who says 'all wild flowers know how to die
gracefully.'"--A.

[21] See distinction between recumbent and rampant herbs, below, under
'Veronica Agrestis,' p. 72.

[22] 'Abstracted' rather, I should have said, and with perfect skill, by
Mr. Collingwood (the joint translator of Xenophon's Economics for the
'Bibliotheca Pastorum'). So also the next following cut, Fig. 5.

[23] Of the references, henceforward necessary to the books I have used as
authorities, the reader will please note the following abbreviations:--

C. Curtis's Magazine of Botany.
D. Flora Danica.
F. Figuier.
G. Sibthorpe's Flora Græca.
L. Linnæus. Systema Naturæ.
L.S. Linnæus's Flora Suecica. But till we are quite used to the other
letters, I print this reference in words.
L.N. William Curtis's Flora Londinensis. Of the exquisite plates
engraved for this book by James Sowerby, note is taken in the close of
next chapter.
O. Sowerby's English Wild Flowers; the old edition in thirty-two thin
volumes--far the best.
S. Sowerby's English Wild Flowers; the modern edition in ten volumes.

[24] See letter on the last results of our African campaigns, in the
_Morning Post_ of April 14th, of this year.