6.  These matters being set right, I pass to the business in hand, which is to define as far as possible the subtle relations between the Veronicas and Draconidae, and again between these and the tribe at present called labiate.  In my classification above, vol. i, p. 200, the Draconidae include the Nightshades; but this was an oversight.  Atropa belongs properly to the following class, Moiridae; and my Draconids are intended to include only the two great families of Personate and Ringent flowers, which in some degree resemble the head of an animal:  the representative one being what we call ‘snapdragon,’ but the French, careless of its snapping power, ’calf’s muzzle’—­“Muflier, muflande, or muffle de Veau.”—­Rousseau, ‘Lettres,’ p. 19.

7.  As I examine his careful and sensible plates of it, I chance also on a bit of his text, which, extremely wise and generally useful, I translate forthwith:—­

“I understand, my dear, that one is vexed to take so much trouble without learning the names of the plants one examines; but I confess to you in good faith that it never entered into my plan to spare you this little chagrin.  One pretends that Botany is nothing but a science of words, which only exercises the memory, and only teaches how to give plants names.  For me, I know no rational study which is only a science of words:  and to which of the two, I pray you, shall I grant the name of botanist,—­to him who knows how to spit out a name or a phrase at the sight of a plant, without knowing anything of its structure, or to him who, knowing that structure very well, is ignorant nevertheless of the very arbitrary name that one gives to the plant in such and such a country?  If we only gave to your children an amusing occupation, we should miss the best half of our purpose, which is, in amusing them, to exercise their intelligence and accustom them to attention.  Before teaching them to name what they see, let us begin by teaching them to see it. That science, forgotten in all educations, ought to form the most important part of theirs.  I can never repeat it often enough—­teach them never to be satisfied with words, (’se payer de mots’) and to hold themselves as knowing nothing of what has reached no farther than their memories.”

8.  Rousseau chooses, to represent his ‘Personees,’ La Mufflaude, la Linaire, l’Euphraise, la Pediculaire, la Crete-de-coq, l’Orobanche, la Cimbalaire, la Velvote, la Digitale, giving plates of snapdragon, foxglove, and Madonna-herb, (the Cimbalaire), and therefore including my entire class of Draconidae, whether open or close throated.  But I propose myself to separate from them the flower which, for the present, I have called Monacha, but may perhaps find hereafter a better name; this one, which is the best Latin I can find for a nun of the desert, being given to it because all the resemblance either to calf or dragon has ceased in its rosy petals, and they resemble—­the lower ones those of the mountain thyme, and the upper one a softly crimson cowl or hood.