parent of all the flourishing trees since cultivated by the gar- 

 deners. 



The Orange tree is of a middling size. The leaf of the 

 Sweet, or China Orange, is ovate, lanceolate, alternate, very 

 little toothed, or not at all; sprinkled with small, resinous, 

 transparent tubercles, resembling those of some species of 

 Hypericum. The flowers of the Orange are white, odorous, 

 in short racemes, towards the end of the branches: its scent 

 has no rival, and is said to be as salutary as it is delicious, not 

 affecting the nerves, as that of other flowers, but strengthen- 

 ing them. 



Know'st thou the land, where groves of citron flower, 

 The golden Orange, darkling leaves embower! 

 The gentle breezes wave the azure skies; 

 The myrtle still, and high the laurel rise? 



Know'st thou the land: Oh there! oh there! 



I long with thee, my lov'd one, to repair. 



Oh there! oh there! Goethe. 



OX EYE. 



Buphthalmum. 



Buphthalmum, L. from the Greek /Sous, ox, and o$3*>.j;, 

 eye. 



A genus of plants to be found every where between the 

 tropics: some of them evergreen, all, with yellow terminal 

 flowers. Herbaceous, shrubby, perennial. Flowers, a com- 

 mon calyx. Corolla compound, radiate; florets of the disk 

 numerous, funnel-shaped, with a five-parted, rather spreading 

 border. Receptacle chaffy. 



Ox-Eye, still green, and bitter patience. 



Garland of Flora. 



PARSLEY. 



Jlpium, perhaps, derived from Jlpes, Bees because 

 these insects are fond of it. The genus Jlpium includes 

 parsley, small-age, cellery, etc. all umbelliferous plants. 



Parsley E. Fr. persil; Swedish persilva; Danish pe- 

 tersille, persille; Greek n-'Tjoo-sMvav; VSTI^; a stone, and 

 <T\>vov, parsley. Stone parsley growing among rocks. 



Although parsley is so commonly used at table, it is said 

 not to agree with all constitutions; sometimes occasioning 

 epilepsy, and producing inflammation of the eyes. 



[See Rees' Cyclopedia.] 



It has the reputation of being a great purifier of the 

 breath from the smoke of a cigar, etc. 



PASSION FLOWER. 

 Pass (flora. 



Passiflora, a name altered by Linnaeus from the Flos 

 Passionis: derived from the Latin Patior, to suffer, and 

 Flos, a flower. 



The Passion flowers are natives of America: some of the 

 varieties, to the South, are of a bright red colour: those of 

 the North are, generally, pale blue, or yellow. 



It is said that the plant owes its name to the missiona- 

 ries, who first discovered it while travelling over the country. 

 The instruments of our Saviour's passion, were thought to be 



represented by it. The five stamens were compared to his five 

 wounds; the three styles, the nails by which he was fixed to 

 the cross; the column which elevates the germen, to the cross 

 itself; and the rays of the nectary to his crown of thorns. 



The calyx is of one leaf, in five deep coloured segments; 

 petals five, inserted into the calyx; nectary a complex radi- 

 ating crown; seeds with a pulpy tunic, about the size of a 

 lime. 



The common blue Passion-flower, P. Cserulea, has 

 leaves deeply palmate, in five smooth segments. 



High o'er the pointal, deck'd with gold, 



(Emblem mysterious to behold,) 



A radiant cross its form expands; 



Its opening arms appear to embrace 



The whole collective human race, 



Refuge of all men, in all lands! Harte. 



PEA EVERLASTING. 



Lathyrus Latifolius. 



Lathyrus, a name adopted from Theophrastus, whose 

 Lathuros appears evidently to be, like ours, something of the 

 pea or vetch kind. 



The chief distinction between the pea (pisum) and the 

 vetchling, (lathynts) consists in the shaft; in the pea, it is 

 triangular, keel-shaped, and woolly; whilst that of the vetch- 

 ling is flat and upright, with a woolly summit. 



Pisum is said, by De Theis, to be derived from the Cel- 

 tic Pisen, and that Pisen is the common root of this word in 

 all languages. Hence the Anglo-Saxon pisa the English 

 pea, pease, and still in obsolete Norfolk, peasen; the French, 

 pois, pesiere; Italian, piso; Welsh, pus; all synonymous 

 with pisum, said by the learned to be deduced from the Greek 

 3n<r3v, which means the same thing. 



The common garden Pea, Pisum sativum, bearing 

 pearly-white, inodorous flowers. The field, or grey pea, P. 

 Jlrvense, with solitary purplish flowers, whose wings are of 

 a violet purple. The marrow-fat, etc. are the esculent pea 

 kinds; the roots annual. 



Vetchling, or Vetch, is of common origin with vicia, an 

 old Latin name, derived by some etymologists from vincio, 

 to bind together, as the various species of this genus twine, 

 with their tendrils, round other plants. 



Lathyrus latifolius, or Great Everlasting Pea, well 

 known to most people; cultivated for its flowers: it has roots 

 that endure for a long course of years, throwing out long 

 climbing stems, which bear large bunches of beautiful crim- 

 son flowers; leaflets elliptical, in pairs; stem winged; peri- 

 anth inferior, of one leaf, bell-shaped; corona papilionaceous; 

 standard very large, inversely heart-shaped, reflexed at the 

 sides and summit; icings smaller, oblong, somewhat crescent- 

 shaped; keel semicircular, the size of the wings, but broader, 

 separating about the middle, inwards. Native of Europe. 



SWEET PEA. 

 Lathyrus Odoratus. 



Common Sweet Pea, L. O. is a hardy annual, native of 

 Sicily and Ceylon. Stalks two-flowered. Leaflets ovate, 

 oblong, two to each branched tendril; legumes hairy. 



