40 ■ FLORA AND THALIA. 



effects, and with success. Every part of this plant 

 was recommended by Baron Stoerck for medicinal 

 purposes. The flowers have scarcely any smell. 



Class, PoLTAKDHiA. Order, Poltgtxia. 



THE ANEMONE. 



See yon Anemones their leaves unfold, 

 With rubies flaming, and with living gold ; 

 In silken robes each hillock stands arrayed. 

 Be gay ! too soon the flowers of Spring will fade : 

 Ah ! crop the flowers of pleasure while they blow, 

 Ere Winter hides them in a veil of snow. 

 Youth, like a thin Anemone, displays 

 His silken leaf, and in a mom decays. 



SIR WM. jom.s, from the Persian. 



