16 FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 



ALOE Clots 6. Order 1 . Native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, Egypt, etc. The flower of the Aloe ha* 

 no calyx. A bitter and medicinal juice in ex- 

 tracted from the leaves. 



RELIGIOUS SUPERSTITION. 



In climes beneath the solar ray, 

 Where beams intolerable day, 

 And arid plains in silence spread, 

 The pale green Alot lifts its head 

 The mystic branch at Moslem's door 

 Betokens travel long and sore 

 In Mecca's weary pilgrimage. 



Flora?* Dictionary. 



SENTIMENT. 



All tenderness you seemed, 

 Gentle and social as a playful child ; 

 But now in lonely superstition wrapped, 

 As on an icy mountain-top thou sittest 

 Lonely and unapproachable, or tossed 

 Upon the surge of passion, like the wreck 

 Of some proud Tyrian in the stormy sea. 



WUunut. 



