[56] That is, the Creative Power which, in common parlance, we choose to call Nature.

[57] No one, I think, has ever before attempted to reconcile, in this way, the two principal theories which have been put forth on the propagation of light.

[58] "The term perianth is usually confined to the flowers of Endogens, whatever colours they present, whether green, as in asparagus, or coloured, as in tulip. Some use the term as a general one, and restrict the use of perigone to cases where a pistil is present, not applying it to unisexual flowers, in which stamens only are produced."—Professor Balfour, "Manual of Botany," p. 169.

[59] Homer, "Odyssey," Book xix., line 520.

[60] Grew, "Anatomy of Plants," p. 147.

[61] Barry Cornwall.

[62] Tragus, "Historia Stirpium," p. 310 (ed. 1552).

[63] Fabius Columna (Fabio Colonna), an Italian man of science, who died in 1650, at the age of eighty-three.

[64] Thomas Campbell.

[65] Anne Pratt, "Flowers and their Associations" (ed. 1846).