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botanists. The Cuckoo flower is the Lychnis floscuculi.
Flag-flower.—Iris pseudacorus.
Yaffils.—Woodpeckers (Picus); three or four species in Britain.
"And gales that close—"
"And liquid notes that close the eye of day."
Milton.
The idea here meant to be conveyed is of the evening wind, so welcome after a hot day of Summer, and which appears to sooth and lull all nature into tranquillity.
