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But SHAKSPEABE, wakens up the lady-fair in Cymle- 

 line on the truthful assurance that 



" Wirikin Marybuds begin 



To ope their golden eyes, 

 With every thing that pretty bin, 

 My lady sweet arise." 



Indeed it appears that at first, according to GEEABDE, 

 the Helianthus was called Sun-J$Iarygold. 



The American Sunflower was brought by the Spa- 

 niards from Peru, where it appears it was consecrated 

 by the Peruvians to the worship of the bright lumi- 

 nary of day ; and the Virgins of the Sun, when 

 officiating in their temples, were crowned with golden 

 Jieliantliij wearing some on their breasts, and holding 

 others in their hands, which is described as forming 

 a spectacle of imposing grandeur. Sunflowers, with 

 all their gaudiness, should, however, be but sparingly 

 scattered in a garden, on the principle that all is not 

 gold that glitters. To the botanist the Sunflower 

 offers a good study of the 19th class of LUSWJETJS- 

 Syngenesia, where one common receptacle encloses an 

 assemblage of florets of different characters. The 

 florets of the ray form the golden fringe of petals or 

 ligulate florets, which are all for show, and guard what 

 we may call the seraglio within : since this flower 

 belongs to the " Polygamia frustranea" where the 

 radiate florets having neither stamens or pistils can- 

 not produce seeds, and, by a poetical image, are 

 therefore inferred to be made in vain, or for show only. 

 The florets of the disc are, however, tubular, each 

 having five anthers, with a single pistil crowned by a 

 bipartite stigma, and each of the florets produces a 

 seed. The fertile florets are in general so numerous, 



