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thus, we have not any others to compare it with, 

 and cannot form a specific character. 



EDWARD. 



I like to examine plants that have but one 

 species. 



MOTHER. 



It certainly is less difficult for a beginner, than 

 when there are many ; which is my reason for 

 choosing such plants for you, when I can. 



You already know that the Tulip is in the sixth 

 class. One of the species, called the wild Tulip 

 Tu'lipa sylves'tris, is a native of England. It 

 differs from the garden Tulip, Tu'lipa Gesneria'na, 

 which grows wild in the Levant, in having narrow 

 leaves, a flower that nods or bends downwards, and 

 is fragrant : the pollen also, on the anthers of the 

 native species, is yellow, instead of black. 



The garden Tulip was first brought from Con- 

 stantinople, about the middle of the sixteenth cen- 

 tury, to Vienna; whence it has found its way over 

 all the rest of Europe. 



The Pine-apple, Brome'lia An'anas, that you see 

 in the hot-house ; Lily-of-the- Valley, Convalla'ria 

 maja'lis ; Asparagus, Asparagus officina'lis ; Hya- 

 cinth, Hyacin'thus non-scrip'tus ; Daffodil, Nar- 

 cis'sus Pseu'do-Narcis'sus ; Barberry, Ber'beris 

 vulga'ris; Garlic, Ariium Schcenopra'sum ; and 

 Sweet-rush, Ac'orus Cai'amus ; are amongst the 

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