Proserpina, Volume 2 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers by John Ruskin
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16. (I.) Giulietta Regina. Pure blue. The same in colour, form, and size, throughout Europe. (II.) Giulietta Soror-Reginæ. Pale, reddish-blue or white in the flower, and smaller in the leaf, otherwise like the Regina. (III.) Giulietta Depressa. The smallest of those I can find drawings of. Flowers, blue; lilac in the fringe, and no bigger than pins' heads; the leaves quite gem-like in minuteness and order. (IV.) Giulietta Cisterciana. Its present name, 'Calcarea,' is meant, in botanic Latin, to express its growth on limestone or chalk mountains. But we might as well call the South Down sheep, Calcareous mutton. My epithet will rightly associate it with the Burgundian hills round Cluny and Citeaux. Its ground leaves are much larger than those of the Depressa; the flower a little larger, but very pale. (V.) Giulietta Austriaca. Pink, and very lovely, with bold cluster of ground leaves, but itself minute--almost dwarf. Called 'small bitter milkwort' by S. How far distinct from the next following one, Norwegian, is not told. The above five kinds are given by Sowerby as British, but I have never found the Austriaca myself. (VI.) Giulietta Amara. Norwegian. Very quaint in blossom outline, like a little blue rabbit with long ears. D. 1169. |
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