Irregular metamorphoses of flowers are extremely common, and usually consist either of an actual muliplication of petals, or of the transformation of stamens and pistils into petals ; the effect of these chages being the formation of double flowers, the impletion of which appears to take place in different ways in different plants.

Samuel Johnson, writing in his Dictionary of the English Language (1755), [defined] novel [as] a small tale, generally of love. To modern sensibilities, Johnson's novel resembles more closely the novella in dimension and the romance in substance. … [T]he term romance, or roman, once interchangeable with novel in English, retains the meaning of novel in Germany, France, Russia, and most of Europe, while in the anglophone world it has been demoted to frivolity.

But certainly there are some names which seem to belong to particular classes of character, to form the mind and even influence the destiny: Louisa, now; - is not your Louisa necessarily a die-away damsel, who reads novels, and holds her head on one side, languishing and given to love!

We sighted the Jennie Harkness, obviously American, at daylight right ahead in the S.E. trades; at noon we were alongside her, and our Foo-Foo band played Yankee-Doodle as we passed her.