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EE ORCHIS. Orchis. Class 19, SYNGE- 

 NESIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. This plant is 

 singularly beautiful in its appearance, which 

 so much resembles the bee, that it is fre- 

 quently mistaken for one resting on the 

 plant. It commonly grows near woods, and 

 in the open meadows. The most successful 

 method of cultivation is by choosing a soil and situation as natu- 

 ral to them as possible, and by suffering the grass to grow around 

 them. 



ERROR. 



Well boots it the thick-mantled leas 

 To traverse: if boon nature grant, 

 To crop the insect seeming plant, 

 The vegetable Bee; or nigh 

 Of kin, the long-horn 'd Butterfly, 

 White, or his brother purple pale, 

 Scenting alike the evening gale; 

 The Satyr flower, the pride of Kent, 

 Of Lizard-form, and goat-like scent. 



BISHOP MANT. 



O hateful Error, Melancholy's child ! 

 Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men 

 The things that are not! O error, soon conceived, 

 Thou never com'st unto a happy birth, 

 But kill'st the mother that engendered thee. 



SHAKSPEARE. 



When people once are in the wrong, 

 Each line they add is much too long; 

 Who fastest walks, but walks astray, 

 Is only furthest from his way. 



PRIOR. 



