that in 400 B.C., just a year before the death of Socrates at Athens, this family of Stolid persons manifested themselves at Rome, shooting up from plebeian roots into places where they had no business; and preparing the way for the degradation of the entire Roman race under the Empire; their success being owed, remember also, to the faults of the patricians, for one of the laws passed by Calvus Stolo was that the Sibylline books should be in custody of ten men, of whom five should be plebeian, "that no falsifications might be introduced in favour of the patricians."

20. All this time, however, we have got no name for the prettiest of all stems,—that of annual flowers growing high from among their ground leaves, like lilies of the valley, and saxifrages, and the tall primulas—of which this pretty type, Fig. 15, was cut for me by Mr. Burgess years ago; admirable in its light outline of the foamy globe of flowers, supported and balanced in the meadow breezes on that elastic rod of slenderest life.

What shall we call it? We had better rest from our study of terms a little, and do a piece of needful classifying, before we try to name it.

21. My younger readers will find it easy to learn, and convenient to remember, for a beginning of their science,

the names of twelve great families of cinquefoiled flowers,[[39]] of which the first group of three, is for the most part golden, the second, blue, the third, purple, and the fourth, red.

And their names, by simple lips, can be pleasantly said, or sung, in this order, the two first only being a little difficult to get over.

1 2 3 4
Roof-foil, Lucy, Pea, Pink,
Rock-foil, Blue-bell, Pansy, Peach,
Primrose. Bindweed. Daisy. Rose.

Which even in their Latin magniloquence will not be too terrible, namely,—

1 2 3 4
Stella, Lucia, Alata, Clarissa,
Francesca, Campanula, Viola, Persica,
Primula. Convoluta. Margarita. Rosa.

22. I do not care much to assert or debate my reasons for the changes of nomenclature made in this list. The