. St. Nicholas [serial] . 728 HOW SOME FLOWERS GOT THEIR NAMES. [June,. but not a peculiarity of appearance. It is the thus named because it is very greedy and takes pod you must not touch, for if you do it will so much nourishment from the soil around and out will fly the seeds. The lycopodium owes its name to the wolf, The lupine gets its name from a Latin word, too ; it means wolfs-foot, and is intended to lupus, meaning wolf. Some think the plant was describe the appearance of the roots. I9°5-] HOW SOME FLOWERS GOT THEIR NAMES. 729 & i^Tf y£. o % O o The mimulus issometimes
. St. Nicholas [serial] . 728 HOW SOME FLOWERS GOT THEIR NAMES. [June,. but not a peculiarity of appearance. It is the thus named because it is very greedy and takes pod you must not touch, for if you do it will so much nourishment from the soil around and out will fly the seeds. The lycopodium owes its name to the wolf, The lupine gets its name from a Latin word, too ; it means wolfs-foot, and is intended to lupus, meaning wolf. Some think the plant was describe the appearance of the roots. I9°5-] HOW SOME FLOWERS GOT THEIR NAMES. 729 & i^Tf y£. o % O o The mimulus issometimes called monkey- W ^ flower, but the word really means littlemask. From mime we get our word mimic,and as there is no greater mimic than the mon-key the common name seems quite suitable. Another plant we may associate with animalsis the equisetum, which means horse-bristle,-ind is sometimes called horsetail. This is a kindof rush ; and there is a variety of it which contains\so much silica that it is found very useful for scour-ing purposes and is called scouring
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