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after the great botanist, "Linnaea borealis " (fig. 4). Miss 

 Elliot has worthily celebrated its retreat : 



" 'Tis a child of the old green woodlands ; 

 Where the song of the free wild bird, 

 And swaying boughs of the summer breeze, 

 Are the only voices heard. 



" In the richest moss of the lonely dells, 



Are its rosy petals found, 

 With the clear blue skies above it spread, 

 And the lordly trees around." 



Our next British tribe is that of the MADDER, to which 

 belong foreign plants of great importance. This contains the 

 Ipecacuanha plant, a little shrub inhabiting the forests of 

 Brazil, with a root about the size of a goose-quill, yellow, 

 but with grey rings round it. This ringed bark forms a 

 medicine equally appreciated by allopathic and homoeopathic 

 practitioners. 



The Quinine, or rather the tree whose bark furnishes that 

 valuable tonic medicine, is a member of the same order ; and 

 last, but not least, is their brother the Coffee plant. This is 

 an evergreen shrub, a native of Arabia and Abyssinia. 



Dr. Scoffern gives a legend of the first discovery of the use 

 of the Coffee berry. The pious Mollah Chadelly was so afflicted 

 that he could not keep awake during his nocturnal devotions, 

 and besought Mahomet to reveal some means of keeping the 

 sleep away. So Mahomet sent a herdsman to inform the 

 devotee that his goats could not sleep after eating Coffee 

 berries, but kept frisking about all night long. The Mollah, 

 taking the hint, prepared a good dose of Coffee, and was 

 charmed with the result. Not a wink of sleep did he get; 

 delicious sensations crowded on his brain, and his midnight 

 devotions were intensely fervent. 



Another story is told relating much the same incidents, but 

 making a Prior of a Maronite convent the hero. Afterwards 

 the Turks became so devoted to Coffee, that they frequented 

 the Coffee-shops instead of going to mosque, and so all use of 



