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varying of course with the height of the object. A piece of card- 

 board shoidd then be placed in the box, a little beyond the true 

 focus of the lens, and the former until a well-defined bright image 

 of the tree, etc. is formed on the card, of course in an inverted 

 direction. The box is then to be placed on any convenient sup- 

 port in this position, and a piece of the prepared paper fixed on the 

 card, the lid of the box is then to be closed, and the whole left 

 for half an hour, at the end of which time a beautifully accurate 

 outline of the object will be found on the paper, which is then to 

 be rendered permanent in the usual manner. It is obvious that 

 this plan is unavailable on a windy day, on account of the branches 

 of the tree, &c. being continually moving, so that it is of far less use 

 to the botanist than the above described process for obtaining 

 drawings of small specimens. 



Flora. 



ARTICLE II. 



LONICERA PER1CLYMENUM.— HONEYSUCKLE or WOODBINE. 



BY CLAUDIA. 



It received the generic name of Lonicera, as a compliment from 

 Plumier to Adam Lonicer, a physician at Frankfort. We name it 

 Woodbine, because it winds itself as it were in wedlock to every 

 tree and shrub in its neighbourhood, which it graces by its well 

 attired branches in return for the support it borrows ; from hence 

 it is styled the Bond of Love. 



"The woodbines mix in am'rous play, 

 And breath their fragrant leaves away." 



In the time of Edward the Third, it appears to have been emble- 

 matical of true love, as Chaucer, the father of English poetry, 

 says, 



" And tho that were chapelets, on her hede, 

 Of fresh wodebind, be such as never were 

 To love untrue, in word, in thought, ne dede ; 

 By ay sted fast ; ne for plesance ne fere. 

 Tho that they shulde hir hertes all to tere, 

 Woud never flit, but ever were stedfast, 

 Till that hir lives there asunder brast." 



This climbing plant always turns from east to west, and so firm- 

 ly does it hold its supporter in embrace, that we often sec young 



