Cirrus@Austlit

Editor's note: 'The writer's desire for common and easily remembered names for our flowers is one in which we share, and as the feeling in this direction is growing stronger and spreading day by day, it is not improbable that the use of long and almost unpronounceable names tor simple flowers will some day be abolished. The selection of names in these verses is, however, somewhat unfortunate, as the plants have common, easily remembered, and some of them euphonious names. For instance, the Myoporum is known as the cockatoo flower, the Stackhousia as the native jessamine, the Wahlenbergia as native bluebell, the Thysanotus as velvet flower, Oxali as sorrell, the Kennedya as native scarlet runner, and the Drosera as sundew.— Ed.'