DIANDR1A 



CLASS II. 



MO NOG V- 



N1A. 



lum. 



TWO STAMIXA. 



This Class has three Orders. 



ORDER I. 



ENCHANTER'S NIGHT-SHADE. This plant 

 is so called, probably from its being found in shady 

 damp places, in churchyards, where ghosts were sup- One Pistil 

 posed to haunt j and was therefore thought to be fa- 

 vourable to incantation. It blossoms in July and 

 August; and the delicacy of the flower gives a ray of 

 cheerfulness to the gloom of its natural situation. 



Some plants blostom twice in a year, as is com- 

 mon between the tropics; others oftener, as the 

 monthly Rose. The time of flowering is determined 

 by the degree of heat which each species requires. 

 The Winter Aconite and Snow-drop blossom in 

 February. The greater number of plants during the 

 month of May; and the compound flowers, as those 

 of the nineteenth Class, chiefly in the Autumn. 



