Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . FORGET-ME-NOTS. The blue and bright-eyed flowret of the brook,Hopes gentle gem, the sweet HERE are, amongthe names of ourBritish plants, afew which areclaimed with appa-rently equal rightby widely differingspecies; e. g., agenus of the Um-bellifercB (CEnanthe) bears theEnglish name of Dropwort,which is also applied to Spiraeafilipendula, one of the would, however, be difficultto find a name which has hadmore claimants than that of Forget - me - not. Nowa-d
Hardwicke's science-gossip : an illustrated medium of interchange and gossip for students and lovers of nature . FORGET-ME-NOTS. The blue and bright-eyed flowret of the brook,Hopes gentle gem, the sweet HERE are, amongthe names of ourBritish plants, afew which areclaimed with appa-rently equal rightby widely differingspecies; e. g., agenus of the Um-bellifercB (CEnanthe) bears theEnglish name of Dropwort,which is also applied to Spiraeafilipendula, one of the would, however, be difficultto find a name which has hadmore claimants than that of Forget - me - not. Nowa-days, indeed, it seems to havebeen settled upon the lovelyblue llyosotis which decksthe borders of our ditchesand streams, and many,doubtless, know of no otherplant to which it is, or hasbeen, applied. But, strange as it may seem, , a well-known authority on the names ofplants, states that Myosotis palustris has only beenknown as Eorget-me not for about forty years !We can hardly imagine the successful transfer of apopular name from one plant to another : scientificmen change about the names of species and generaat their own sweet will, and outsiders care littlewhether the American Waterweed be known asE
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