300 FLORA HISTORICA. 



THROAT-WORT. Trachelium. 



Natural Order CampanacecB. Campamilacecc, Juss. 

 A Genus of the Fentandria Monogynia Class. 



That a plant of such a graceful elegance as the 

 Trachelium CcBruleum, whose aerial umbles are so 

 beautifully loaded with its pretty tubular flowers, that 

 seem dyed with the finest tint of its native Italian 

 sky, should not have had its praises sung either by 

 the classic poets of old or nature's bards of later 

 days, has induced us to make it the emblenfi of 

 neglected beauty. 



Nature permits her various gifts to fall 



On various climes, nor smiles alike on all ; 



The Latian vales eternal verdui-e wear. 



And flow'rs spontaneous crown the smiling year. 



Fentcn. 



In vain we have turned over the leaves of the 

 Latin authors, with the hope of finding that this 

 Italian plant had been made sacred to some fair 

 goddess, or that it had formerly beautified the brow 

 of the Graces themselves. JEsculapius seems also 

 to have so completely overlooked this plant as to 

 have left us no account of its virtues; and the flower 

 v/e presume was found too beautiful for the ugly 



