Botanical Crackjaw
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Taxonomy, Botany, Natural History |
Responds to a report in The Times showing the complex new Latin names of flowers at the Crystal Palace. Demonstrates the unsatisfactory effect on poetry if the vernacular names of flowers are replaced by their corresponding Latin names. | |
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