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of the Flowers " celebrates these colours, as well as praising 

 other favourite flowers treated of in this chapter. 



" See, and scorn all duller 



Taste, how Heaven loves colour ; 

 How great Nature clearly joys in red and green ; 



What sweet thoughts she thinks 



Of Violets and Pinks, 

 And a thousand flushing hues made solely to be seen. 



See her whitest Lilies 



Chill the silver showers, 

 And what a red mouth has her Rose, the woman of the flowers. 



' Who shall say that flowers 



Dress not heaven's own bowers? 

 Who its love without them can fancy, or sweet floor ? 



Who shall even dare 



Say we sprang not there, 

 And came not down that love might bring one piece of heaven the more? . 



Oh ! pray believe that angels 



From those blue dominions, 

 Brought us in their white laps down, 'twixt their golden pinions." 



There is a White Campion (Lychnis vespertina), which grows 

 in corn fields, and becomes very fragrant in an evening. It 

 greatly resembles the Red Campion, so much so as to be con- 

 sidered by some high authorities a mere variety. I have 

 gathered it near Clotherholme farm, a couple of miles from 

 JRipon, and Edward has specimens from Kent. 



, The Viscid and Alpine Campions are mountain plants, and 

 we have not obtained specimens of either. 



The Corn Cockle represents the last family in the Pink tribe. 

 Its botanic name (Agrostemma githago, Plate IV., fig 7), sig- 

 nifies " crown of the field," and suits the bright stately plant 

 exceedingly well. The calyx indicates a state of transition 

 between the two tribes, being united in the lower part like the 

 Pinks, &c., and expanding in the upper into free leaflets in the 

 style of the Chickweeds. It adorns corn fields in most of the 

 counties of England, and its full purple colour and tall upright 

 stems make it generally a favourite. 



We now come to an extensive tribe of very humble plants 

 which possess little interest except for botanists. The Pearl- 



