252 FLORA HISTORICA. 



VIRGINIAN COWSLIP. Dodccatheon Meadia. 



Natural Order Prccice. Primulaccce, Juss. A Genus 

 of the Pentandria Monogynia Class. 



Meadia's soft chains five suppliant beaux confess, 

 And hand in hand the laughing belle address ; 

 Alike to all she bows with wanton air, 

 Rolls her dark eye, and waves her golden hair. 



Darwix. 



The petal, stamen, and the pistil trace 



Of common blossoms, or of unknown race ; 



The first well pleased you mark with grateful sight, 



And view the last through hope's bewitching light. 



What sudden pleasure, when some object rare, 

 Confined peculiar to one soil and air, 

 More precious far from expectation grown, 

 By some bless' d turn upon the sight is thrown ! 



Delille. 



The delight with which the botanist views a 

 newly-discovered plant can only be conceived by 

 the students of nature; it seems to expand his 

 ideas, and give him new conceptions of the wisdom 

 of the Great Creator. He contemplates with ad- 

 miration the harmony of its parts, which he finds so 

 happily adapted to its native situation on the globe ; 

 he learns by the character of the plant the climate 



