BOTANICAL STROLLS. 191 



Again, in "As You Like It:" — • 



'■"■Rosalind.— 0, how full of briers is this working-day world! 



Ccfe.— They are but burrs, cousin, thrown upon thee iu holiday foolery. If we walk not 

 in the trodden paths, our very petticoats will catch them. 



Ros.—l could shake them oiF my coat; these burrs are in my heart." 



In "Troilus and Cressida/' Pandarus, uncle to the heroine, says— 



"Nay, I'll give my word for her too; our kindred, though they be long ere they are wooed, 

 they are constant, being won: they are burrs, I can tell you; they'll stick Ay here they are 

 thrown." 



Polygonum aviculare, (Common Knot-grass;) Bartsia Odontites, (Red Bartsia,) 

 a pretty plant seen growing, but oue which, like many other of the Scrophu- 

 larinese, turns black and unsightly in drying: the flowers are of a reddish 

 purple. Agrimonia Eupatoria, (Common Agrimony,) a plant well known to 

 the peasantry, being largely collected by them, and dried as an officinal herb. 

 It is a very graceful plant, of the Rosaceous tribe, having its yellow flowers 

 on a long spike- the leaves are interruptedly pinnate, with the leaflets deeply 

 serrated. Its name, according to Hooker, corrupted from Argemone, given 

 by the Greeks to a plant supposed to cure the cataract in the eye, called 

 argema. Origanum vulture, (Common Marjoram:) botanical name from 

 oros, a hill; and ganos, joy; implying that this genus is the ornament 

 of dry hilly spots on which it flourishes. This name is most suitable; for, 

 with their large panniclcs of flowers, a cluster of these plants is one of the most 

 cheerful sights our dry banks present. '^^ Clinopodium vulgare, (Wild Basil;) 

 Ononis arvensis, (Rest-harrow,) growing on the edges of the clifis, and over- 

 hanging them in lovely profusion. Hypericum quadrangulum, (Square-stalked 

 St. John's Wort.) The St. John's Worts are a very interesting class of plants; 

 but I must not indulge in any comments upon them, lest I should encroach 

 upon your valuable space. Centaurea nigra, (Black Knapweed;) and Scabiosa 

 arvensis, (Field Knautia,) both gay and showy flowers, and familiar to all 

 accustomed to ramble through the fields. 



From Langdon Hall we proceeded to Wembury, situated on the sea-coast, 

 finding in our way Pyrethrum Parthenium, (Feverfew;) Linaria vulgaris, 

 (Yellow Toad-flax,) with its spikes of crowded, imbricated, sulphur-coloured 

 flowers; Filago Germanica — one of a group of small Composite plants, difficult 

 to identify, but so elaborately constructed as to be well deserving of study; 

 Centaurea Scahiosa, (Great Knapweed.) 



At Wembury Ave met with Anagallis tenella, (Bog Pimpernel,) that sweet 

 little plant, with its creeping, thread-like stem, sending up its comparatively 

 large pink corollas at every node. Sparganium ramosum, (Branched Bur- 

 reed;) Myosotis palustris, (Forget-me-not.) So much has been said, and so 



* This is another of the plants not unknown to our great bard. He designates it "sweet 



marjoram;" and it forms apart of the bouquet which Perdita, in the "Winter's Talc," presents 



to Polixenes: — 



"Here's flowers for you; 



Hot lavender, mint, savory, marjoram." 



