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Says the Times' notice of the flowers at the
Crystal Palace: "The specimens of sarracenia
drummondialia, of the imantopyllum miniatum,
of the cyanophyllum magnificum, of the sarra-
cenia drummondifluva, and of the sphaerogyne
latifolia call for distinct notice." And they
shall not call in vain, and the distinct notice
Punch gives them is that they are sesquip-
edalian kusses. We shall have the really lovely
flowers, the fairies of the old creation, crying
out for new titles next. Who remembers, or
rather who forgets Barry Cornwall's weavers'
song, " 'Tis Better to Sing than Grieve?"

Come show us the rose with its hundred dyes,
The lily without a blot,
The violet, deep as your true love's eyes,
And the little forget-me-not.

Are we to have this re-written in the following
fashion?--

The rosa deschenhaultiana, come, show us
The Lillium sepalisaibis, white,
With the Viola ranunculifolia endows us,
And the wee Myosotis palustris height.

--Punch.