224 FLORA IIISTORICA. 



EVERLASTING, or CUD-WEED. 



Gnaphalium. 



N-.tural Order Compositce Discoidece. CorymhifercB 

 Juss. ^ A Genus of the SyngencsiaFolygaDiia Sitper- 

 Jiua Class. 



As gather'd flowers, wliile their wounds are new, 

 Look gay and fresh as on the stalk they grew, 

 Torn from the root that nourish'd them awhile, 

 (Not taking notice of their fate) they smile. 

 And in the hand that rudely pluck'd them show 

 Fairer than those that to their autumn grow. 



Waller. 



We present this lasting flower as the emblem of 

 jiever-ceasing remembrance, from its being so fre- 

 quently used on the continent to decorate the 

 monuments and graves of departed friends. Since 

 the hill of Pere la Chaise has been converted into 

 a cemttery for the city of Paris, the demand for 

 these flowers in the French capital has been so 

 considerable, as not only to employ many hands in 

 tlie cultivation of them, but numerous families are 

 regularly occupied and entirely supported by form- 

 ino- these flowers into ^^arlands and crosses, which 

 are offered for sale by the cottagers near the entrance 



