C. Curtis’s Magazine of Botany.  D. Flora Danica.  F. Figuier.  G. Sibthorpe’s Flora Graeca.  L. Linnaeus.  Systema Naturae.  L.S.  Linnaeus’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.

[25] I deliberately, not garrulously, allow more autobiography in ‘Proserpina’ than is becoming, because I know not how far I may be permitted to carry on that which was begun in ‘Fors.’

[26] In present Botany, Polygala Chamaebuxus; C. 316:  or, in English, Much Milk Ground-box.  It is not, as matters usually go, a name to be ill thought of, as it really contains three ideas; and the plant does, without doubt, somewhat resemble box, and grows on the ground;—­far more fitly called ‘ground-box’ than the Veronica ‘ground-oak.’  I want to find a pretty name for it in connection with Savoy or Dauphine, where it indicates, as above stated, the healthy districts of hard limestone.  I do not remember it as ever occurring among the dark and moist shales of the inner mountain ranges, which at once confine and pollute the air.

[27] Which, with the following page, is the summary of many chapters of ‘Modern Painters:’  and of the aims kept in view throughout ’Munera Pulveris.’  The three kinds of Desert specified—­of Reed, Sand, and Rock—­should be kept in mind as exhaustively including the states of the earth neglected by man.  For instance of a Reed desert, produced merely by his neglect, see Sir Samuel Baker’s account of the choking up of the bed of the White Nile.  Of the sand desert, Sir F. Palgrave’s journey from the Djowf to Hayel, vol. i., p. 92.

[28] This subject is first entered on in the ‘Seven Lamps,’ and carried forward in the final chapters of ’Modern Painters,’to the point where I hope to take it up for conclusion, in the sections of ’Our Fathers have told us’ devoted to the history of the fourteenth century.

[29] See in the first volume, the plates of Sonchus Arvensis and Tussilago Petasites; in the second, Carduus tomentosus and Picris Echioides.

[30] For the sense in which this word is used throughout my writings, see the definition of it in the 52nd paragraph of the ‘Queen of the Air,’ comparing with respect to its office in plants, Sec.Sec. 59-60.

[31] Written in 1880.

[32] The plate of Chamaedrys, D. 448, is also quite right, and not ’too tall and weedlike,’ as I have called it at p. 72.

[33] “Stems numerous from the crown of the root-stock, de-cumbent.”—­S.  The effect of the flower upon the ground is always of an extremely upright and separate plant, never appearing in clusters, (I meant, in close masses — it forms exquisite little rosy crowds, on ground that it likes) or in any relation to a central root.  My epithet ‘rosea’ does not deny its botanical de- or pro-cumbency.