18 FLORA DOMESTICA. 



purple Amaranth, interwoven, would make a beautiful mix- 

 ture, especially as the Amaranth is deficient in leaves. 



One of the most popular species of the Amaranth is the 

 Love-lies-bleeding. The origin of this name is not generally 

 known ; unless we are to suppose it christened by the 

 daughter of O'Connor, in her tender lamentations over the 

 tomb of Connocht Moran : 



" A hero's bride ! this desert bower. 

 It ill befits thy gentle breeding : 

 And wherefore dost thou love this flower 

 To call — ray love-lies bleeding ? 



This purple flower my tears have nursed ; 



A hero's blood supplied its bloom : 

 I love it, for it was the first 



That grew on Connocht-Moran's tomb." 



The Amaranths are chiefly natives of America, and very 

 few are supposed to grow naturally in Europe; yet Sir 

 W. Jones speaks of them as if growing wild in Wales : 



" Fair Tivy, how sweet are thy waves gently flowing. 

 Thy wild oaken woods, and green eglantine bowers. 

 Thy banks with the blush-rose and amaranth glowing 

 While friendship and mirth claim their labourless hours !" 



ANDROMEDA. 



ERICINE^. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Marsh cistus; wild rosemary; poley-raountain ; moon- wort; marsh 



holy-rose. 



This plant was named by Linnaeus, from the daughter 

 of Cepheus and Cassiope, who was exposed at the water- 

 side, and rescued from the sea-monster by Perseus. Thus 

 a name in botany, especially in the works of this great and 

 illustrious naturalist, is often made to tell two stories — that 

 of its classical prototype and of its own nature. 



The Marsh Andromeda, which is a native of America 

 and many parts of Europe, is also a plant of our own ; 



