156 OP PROGNOSTICKS. CHAP. 4. 6. 



Poppies, the Lillies and Roses, may be said 

 to constitute the 



SOLSTITIAL FLORA. 

 As the year declines, the 



AESTIVAL FLORA, 



corresponding to the Vernal, paints the garish 

 eyes of the Dog Days with Sunflowers, China 

 Asters, Tropoeoli, African Marigolds, and other 

 plants which love heat. The 



AUTUMNAL FLORA, 

 answering to the Primaveral, then introduces 

 Michaelmas Daisies, Starworts, and other late 

 blowing plants, with their companions Fungi 

 and Mushrooms, till at length bleak Winter 

 shows only a few Hellebores, Aconites, and 

 Mosses, belonging to the 



HIBERNAL FLORA 

 of this dreary season.* 



* The following verses, extracted from a newspaper, said to 

 be a translation of some Sweedish Linnean Lines, by P. V. 

 Dessaouls, seem to allude to the progress of the blooming 

 train of Flora. The dreamer is in imagination dead, but yet 

 living as the Earth ; and the Snow being taken off by the 

 vernal Sun, the different Flowers take their turn to exhibit 

 the beauties of their gay wardrobe. The apparent explanation 

 of the dream, by a Vestal Maid going to sleep hugging her 

 Cat, is whimsical enough. 



