could have made. Nobody! because it means ever so
much careful watching of the ways of the leaf, and a lot of work in
cramp perspective besides. It is not quite right yet, but it _is_
nice.

[Footnote 25: "Proserpina,"]

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It is so nice to be able to find anything that is in the least
new to _you_, and interesting; my rocks are quite proud of
rooting that little saxifrage.

I'm scarcely able to look at one flower because of the two on each
side, in my garden just now. I want to have bees' eyes, there are so
many lovely things.

I must tell you, interrupting my botanical work this morning,
something that has just chanced to me.

I am arranging the caryophylls, which I mass broadly into "Clarissa,"
the true jagged-leaved and clove-scented ones; "Lychnis," those whose
leaves are essentially in two lobes; "Arenaria," which I leave
untouched; and "Mica," a new name of my own for the pearlworts of
which the French name is to be Miette, and the representative type
(now Sagina procumbens) is to be in--

_Latin_--Mica amica.
_French_--Miette l'amie.
_English_--Pet pearlwort.

Then the next to this is to be--

_Latin_--Mica millegrana.
_French_--Miette aux mille perles.
_English_--Thousand pearls.

Now this on the whole I consider the prettiest of the group, and so
look for a plate of it which I can copy. Hunting all through my
botanical books, I find the best of all is Baxter's Oxford one, and
determine at once to engrave that. When turning the page of his text I
find: "The specimen of this curious and interesting little plant from
which the accompanying drawing was made was communicated to me by Miss
Susan Beever. To the kindness of this young lady, and that of her
sister, Miss Mary Beever, I am indebted for the four plants figured in
this number."

I have copied lest you should have trouble in looking for the book,
but now, you darling Susie, please tell me whether I may not separate
these lovely pearlworts wholly from the spergulas,--by the pearlworts
having only two leaves like real pinks at the joints, and the
spergulas, a _cluster_; and tell me how the spergulas scatter their
seeds, I can't find any account of it.

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I would fain have come to see that St. Bruno lily; but if I don't come
to see Susie and you, be sure I am able to come to see nothing. At
present I am very deeply involved in the c