ient Yorkshire farmhouses, not to speak of
Ingleborough, who was, I think, a little depressed because he knew you
were only going to send your remembrances and not your love to him.
The clouds gathered on his brow occasionally in a fretful manner, but
towards evening he resumed his peace of mind and sends you his
"remembrances" and his "blessing." I believe he saves both you and me
from a great deal of east wind.

Well, I've got a plan in my head _this_ morning for the new extracts.
Shall we call them "Lapides (or "Marmora") Portici"; and put a little
preface to them about the pavement of St. Mark's porch and its
symbolism of what the education of a good man's early days must be to
him? I think I can write something a little true and trustworthy about
it.

* * * * *

_26th November._

I have entirely resigned all hope of ever thanking you rightly for
bread, sweet odors, roses and pearls, and must just allow myself to be
fed, scented, rose-garlanded and bepearled as if I were a poor little
pet dog or pet pig. But my cold is better, and I _am_ getting on with
this botany; but it is really too important a work to be pushed for a
week or a fortnight. And Mary and you will be pleased at last, I am
sure.

I have only to-day got my four families, Clarissa, Lychnis, Scintilla,
and Mica, perfectly and simply defined.[25] See how nicely they come.

A. Clarissa changed from Dianthus, which is bad Greek (and all
my pretty flowers have names of girls). Petal _jagged_ at the
outside.

B. Lychnis. Petal _divided in two_ at the outside, and the
fringe retired to the top of the limb.

C. Scintilla. (Changed from Stellaria, because I want Stella for
the house leeks.) Petal formed by the _two_ lobes of lychnis
without the retired fringe.

D. Mica. _Single_ lobed petal.

When once these four families are well understood in typical examples,
how easy it will be to attach either subordinate groups or
specialities of habitat, as in America, to some kinds of them! The
entire order, for their purity and wildness, are to be named, from
Artemis, "Artemides", instead of Caryophyllaceae; and next them come
the Vestals (mints, lavenders, etc.); and then the Cytheride Viola,
Veronica, Giulietta, the last changed from Polygala.

That third Herb Robert one is just the drawing that nobody but me
(never mind grammar)