Proserpina, Volume 2 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers by John Ruskin
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(4) " Hirta. Hairy 618
(5) " Mirabilis. Marvellous 1045 (6) " Montana. Mountain 1329 (7) " Odorata. Odorous 309 (8) " Palustris. Marshy 83 (9) " Tricolor. Three-coloured 623 (9B) " Tricolor. Var. Arenaria, Sandy 2647 Three-coloured (10) " Elatior. Taller 68 (11) " Epipsila. (Heaven knows what: it is 2405 Greek, not Latin, and looks as if it meant something between a bishop and a short letter e) I next run down this list, noting what names we can keep, and what we can't; and what aren't worth keeping, if we could: passing over the varieties, however, for the present, wholly. (1) Arvensis. Field-violet. Good. (2) Biflora. A good epithet, but in false Latin. It is to be our Viola aurea, golden pansy. |
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