are attached to the torus, may, indeed, often be an important part of the plant’s description, but ought not to be elements in its definition.  Three petaled and three-sepaled, four-petaled and four-sepaled, five-petaled and five-sepaled, etc., etc., are essential—­with me, primal—­elements of definition; next, whether resolute or stellar in their connection; next, whether round or pointed, etc.  Fancy, for instance, the fatality to a rose of pointing its petals, and to a lily, of rounding them!  But how deep cut, or how hard holding, is quite a minor question.

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.  Sec. 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 Lentibulariaceae 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 diminished into a little pipe by a stretch of licence, and have become tibula:  [but tibulus is a kind of pine tree in Pliny]; when Len tibula would be the lens or lentil-shaped pipe or bladder.  I give you this only for what it is worth.  The lenticula, as a derivation, is reliable and has authority.

Lenticula, a lentil, a freckly eruption; lenticularis, lentil-shaped; so the nat. ord. ought to be (if this be right) lenticulariaceae.

(2) BOTANIC GARDENS, CHELSEA, Feb. 14, 1882.

Lentibularia is an old generic name of Tournefort’s, which has been superseded by utricularia, but, oddly enough, has been retained in the name of the order lentibulareae; but it probably comes from lenticula, which signifies the little root bladders, somewhat resembling lentils.