OF BRITISH PLANTS. / 



Alas the Paphian ! fair Adonis slain ! 

 Tears plenteous as his blood she pours amain. 

 But gentle flowers are born, and bloom around, 

 From every drop that falls upon the ground : 

 "Where streams his blood, there blushing springs the Rose, 

 And where a tear has dropp'd a "Wind-flower blows. 

 Whether the flower that we now call Anemony, was that 

 which the Sicilian writers meant, is a question, into which 

 it were here out of place to enter. Pliny tells us (H.N. 

 1. xxi. c. 11) that it was so named, because it never opens 

 but when the wind is blowing. Ovid describes it as a very 

 fugacious flower, and after comparing it with that of the 

 Pomegranate, says (Met. x. 737) : 

 " Brevis est tamen usus in illis, 

 Namque male haerentem, et nimia levitate caducum 

 Excutiunt idem qui prastant nomina venti." 

 It is doubtful whether he meant the same plant as Pliny ; 

 and he could scarcely have meant that which we call so 

 now ; more probably a cistus, or rock-rose. The name is 

 now applied to the genus Anemone, L. 



ANET, dill seed, from L. anethum, Gr. avrjdov, 



A. graveolens, L. 



ANGELICA, its Lat. name, either as Fuchs tells us, (Hist. 

 Plant, p. 126,) "a suavissimo ejus radicis odore, quern 

 spirat," or " ab immensa contra venena facultate," from 

 the sweet scent of its root, or its value as a remedy against 

 poisons and the plague, yielding, as Brunschwygk tells us, 

 " das aller-edelst wasser das man haben mag fur die pesti- 

 lenz ;" and of which Du Bartas says, (Third day, p. 27,) 

 Sylvester's translation, 1641, 



" Contagious aire ingendring Pestilence 

 Infects not those that in their mouths have ta'en 

 Angelica, that happy counterbane 

 Sent down from heav'n by some celestial scout, 

 As well the name and nature both avowt." 



Angelica sylvestris, L. 



ANISE, or as in " The Englishman's Docter," ANNY, 

 " Some Anny seeds be sweet, and some more bitter." 



