194 FLORA'S LEXICON 



UNFLOWER. Helianthus Annuus. Class 

 19, Syngenesia. Order : Trigynia. This 

 species of sunflower is a native of Peru and 

 Mexico, where it sometimes grows to the 

 enormous height of twenty feet ; and has 

 flowers two feet in breadth. The Helian- 

 thus Indicus, or Dwarf Sunflower, is found 



in Egypt. ( The remaining species of this genus, 25 in number, 



are all indigenous to the Western Continent. 



LOFTY AND PURE THOUGHTS. 



Where rustic taste at leisure trimly weaves 

 The rose and straggling woodbine to the eaves, 

 And on the crowded spot that pales enclose 

 The white and scarlet daisy rears in rows, 

 Training the trailing peas in clusters neat, 

 Perfuming evening with a luscious sweet, 

 And sunflowers planting for their gilded show, 

 That scale the windows' lattice ere they blow, 

 And, sweet to habitants within the sheds, 

 Peep through the crystal panes their golden, heads. 



Clare. 



I know you all, and will awhile uphold 

 The unyoked humour of your idleness : 

 Yet herein will I imitate the sun; 

 Who doth permit the base contagious clouds 

 To smother up his beauty from the world, 

 That, when he please again to be himself, 

 Being wanted, he may be more wonder'd at, 

 By breaking through the foul and ugly mists 

 Of vapours, that did seem to strangle him. 



Shakspeare. 



Faster than spring-time showers, comes thought on thought ; 

 And not a thought, but thinks on dignity. 



Shakspeare. 



