256 FLORA HTSTORICA. 



reflecting from what latitude they were originally 

 brought, or recollecting the lines wherein Milton 

 tells us, 



Nature's boon 



— ^«iuic t> uuon 

 Four d forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, 

 Both where the morning sun first warmly smote 

 The open field, and where the unpierced shade 

 Imurown'd the noon-tide bowers. 



