12/15 Could we penetrate to the original suggestive idea that called forth the name, it would bring valuable information about the first openings of the human mind towards Nature; and the merest dream of such a discovery invests with a strange charm the words that could tell, if we could understand, so much of the forgotten infancy of the human race." Footnotes: 1. "Dictionary of English Plant Names," by J.Britten and Robert Holland. "English Plant Names," Introduction, p. |