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EDWARD R. WOLPOW Brookline, Massachusetts

The usual compilation of official state flowers is based upon people's likes and dislikes regarding the plants themselves. We should attempt instead a logologist' s list - in particular, try to provide an example for the species name of the Latin binomial, for each state. (There is, as far as I can tell, only one genus name which qualifies, I DAHOA.) Most names in the list below are taken from H.W. Rickett's Wild Flowers of the United States (1966). Those marked with an asterisk are from N. Britton and A. Brown's An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States and Canada ( 1913; . reprinted 1970). The single example from Alaska is from E. Hulten's Flora of Alaska (1968), and the Hawaiian flower is from·B.D. Morley's Wild Flowers of the World (970).

AL Scutellaria alabamensis AK Agrostis alaskana AZ Agoseris arizonica AR Erysimium arkansanum CA Abutilon californicum CO Erigonum colorandense CT Potamogeton lonchites connecticutensis FL Buchnera floridana GA Amorpha georgiana HI Argyroxyphium sandwicense 1D Lomatium idahoense I L Desmanthus ill inoensis lA Chrysospleni urn Lowense KS Zephyranthes kansensis KY Aster kentuckiensis* LA Proboscidea louisianica ME Carex mainensis'" MD Desmodium marilandicum MI Lilium michiganense MS Cassia mississippiensis MO Astragalus missouriensis MT Arnica montana NE Cirsium nebraskense NV Allium neva dense NJ Lechea novae-caesareae* NM Acalypha neomexicana NY Aconitum noveboracense* OH Solidago ohioensis OK Phlox oklahomensis

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OR Chrysopsis oregona PA Cardamine pennsylvanica TN Astragalus tennesseensis TX Abronia texana UT Agave utahensis VA Agave virginica WA Uli um washington ianum WY Besseya wyomingensis

We could add Anemone caroliniana to represent the Carolinas. This This leaves Delaware, Indiana, Massachusetts, Mi!1.nesota, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, the Dakotas, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin unrepresented.

There is an Aster novae-angliae, for New England, and even llex bronxensis'o" for the holly that did not grow in Brooklyn. Because Eboracum was the name of the Roman town whose ruins were at about the same location as the English town of York, the La tin iza tion of New York (as I noted years ago, on my Columbia College diploma) is noveboracense, or some such, and therefore unrecognizable. Caesar's connection to the island of Jersey leads to novae-caesareae for New Jersey. The silversword, found only in Hawaii, is Latin-named for the state's former designation, the Sandwich Islands.

Readers are called upon to complete the list. The search into floral binomials will at the least lead one to encounter such won­ders as the vowel-rich Allium aaseae, and the simple joys of Pha­celia cookie and Veronica beccabunga.

AN ALICE LEXICON

Alice aficionados will be delighted with Isn't That Lewis Carroll?, a lexicon of more than one thousand "mimsy words" and their exact locations in Alice 's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass, and The Hunting of the Snark. The book, a paperback of 126 pages, has been compiled by Charles A. Miller, and is available for $3.95 plus $1 ship­ping from the Lake Forest Book Store, Lake Forest IL 60045. The author comments in the Preface

To go through the index methodically is to enter the world of Lewis Carroll in his own words. Here we find bathing machines, deal-boxes, orange marmalade, macassar oil, and pocket watches. Unexpectedly, perhaps, we find no direct reference to either religion or empire, subjects one would suppose concerned the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis CarroU) and his friends at Oxford Univer­sity In the late nineteenth century. Maybe these subjects were unfit for children. But the index does conta in many entries on law and justice, from the "Mouse 's Tale" in Alice zn Wonderland to the "Barrister 's Dream" in The Hunting of the Snark.

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