154 EXPLANATION OF BOTANICAL TERMS 



EXERCISES 



1. Give instances of plants which have bracts, tendrils, 

 pistils, &c. 



2. What flowers are composite, sessile, umbelliferous, &c. ? 



3. What flowers have imbricated petals, caducous sepals, &c. ? 



4. What plants are parasitic, indigenous (British Islands), 

 leguminous, &c. ? 



EPILOGUE 



SIT thee by the ingle, when 



The sear faggot blazes bright, 



Spirit of a winter's night; 



When the soundless earth is muffled, 



And the caked snow is shuffled 



From the ploughboy's heavy shoon; 



When the Night doth meet the Noon 



In a dark conspiracy 



To banish Even from her sky. 



Sit thee there, and send abroad, 10 



With a mind self -overawed, 



Fancy, high-commission'd : send her! 



She has vassals to attend her: 



She will bring, in spite of frost, 



Beauties that the earth hath lost; 



She will bring thee, all together, 



All delights of summer weather; 



All the buds and bells of May, 



From dewy sward or thorny spray; 



