WILD ELOWEES OF JULY, 



CHAP. XVI. 



" FURROW-WEEDS" AND BRAMBLES HISTORY AND ECO- 

 NOMY OF THE LATTER POPPY, CAMPION, AND OTHER 

 CORN-FLOWERS WEEDS OF WASTE SPOTS AND BALLAST 

 HEAPS OROBANCHES, DOCKS, &C. INDICATIONS OF THE 

 DECLINE OF THE vESTIVAL FLORA ACCOUNT OF THE 

 NETTLE EVENING IN A GARDEN. 



" Crown'd with rank Fumiter, and Furrow Weeds, 

 With Harlocks, Hemlock, Nettles, Cuckoo Flowers, 

 Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow 

 In our sustaining corn." KING LEAR. 



"We need not be quite so mad as Lear, but we must 

 so far assume a portion of his madness as to seize 

 upon some of the " idle weeds" placed by SHAKSPEABE 

 in his coronal, as well as their congeners, to indicate 

 the rank luxuriance of nature in her wild haunts, as 

 well as to mark that there are thorns and lurid hues 

 even amidst Flora's dominion, and that " the poison- 

 ous Henbane springs up amidst sweet flowers," as 

 sorrow, anguish, and disappointment, must of neces- 

 sity furrow the fair field that youthful anticipation 

 sees expanding before its delighted view. We have 

 previously expatiated upon Boses but from direful 

 experience we know full well that the brambly thicket 

 is not to be escaped, nor as impartial observers could 



