—p. 157. 



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' Through quaint obliquities I might pursue 

 These cravings ; when the Foxglove, one by one 

 Upwards through every stage of the tall stem 

 Had shed beside the public way its bells, 

 And stood of all dismantled, save the last. 

 Left at the tapering ladder's top, that seemed 

 To bend, as dolh a slender blade of grass, 

 Tipp'd with a I'ain drop. Fancy loved to seat. 

 Beneath the plant despoiled, but crested still 

 With this last relic soon itself to fall, 

 Some vagrant mothej-, whose arch little ones 

 All unconcern'd by her dejected plight, 

 Laugh'd as with rival eagerness their hands 

 Gather'd the purple cups that round them lay 

 Strewing the turf's green slope." 



" Primula vulgaris. Many botanists have their favourite flowers 

 around which they associate certain events, feelings and facts, that 

 perchance may be too deep for tears, and which it is good to muse in 

 solitude and silence ; but singularly enough, few have thus married 

 the primrose. It is, however, the favourite flower of my excellent 

 friends Mr. Archibald Hepburn and the Rev. Dr. Landsborough. 



" The favourite flower of 



Sir J. E. Smith, M.D., was Geura rivale. 



Patrick' Neill, LL.D Ranunculus Ficaria. 



Rev, Charles Abbot Alchemilla vulgaris. 



Professor Robert Graham, M.D. Sonchus alpinus. 



William Withering, M.D Menyanthes trifoliata. 



Rev. Dr. Chalmers Galanthus nivalis. 



Rev. William Kirby Geranium pratense. 



William Bromfield, M.D Tamus communis. 



William Borrer, Esq., is Primula farinosa. 



Professor J. H. Balfour, M.D Astragalus alpinus. 



Professor G. W. Arnott, LL.D. Anagallis tenella. 



Robert K. Greville, LL.D Saxifraga oppositifolia. 



Miss Attwood Campanula hederifolia. 



H. C. Watson, Esq Trientalis curopaa. 



The Author Oxalis acetosella." 



—P. 165. 



The idea of connecting a flower with the name of a botanist is pretty 

 and poetical ; but the lament ihai few have thus married the primrose 



