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pendant yellow blossom is described as " deli- 

 cately dashed \vitli crimson spots within, and 

 marked with fine purple lines on the outer 

 part of the petal;" while a variety of this 

 species is of a pale crimson colour, without 

 any spots or lines ; and a second is of a deep 

 gloAving yellow, its anthers of a reddish orange 

 colour, and thickly strewed -with fine powder. 

 These flowers gi-ow freely in Canada, and cover 

 large tracts of land, mingling their faint odour 

 with tliat of the sweet wild roses which grow 

 there, and with the fragrance of the flower 

 called by the colonists the milk weed, which 

 has the delicious perfume of a stock, and 

 which, with a few other powerfully scented 

 blossoms, compensate, in some measure, for 

 the want of odours in the Canadian violets, 

 which grow in profusion in their forests. 



The dark bro\vn or yellow wallflower {Cliei- 

 ranthus cheiri) has been cultivated for many 

 centuries in our gardens, and furnished many 

 an allusion for the songs of the troubadours. 

 The Alpine wallflower is generally thought 

 handsomer than our common species, on ac- 

 count of its larger and more compact flowers, 

 but it must yield to the former in sweetness of 

 scent. This plant is a native of France and 

 Spain. The Avallflower grows wild on the 

 old walls of many an eastern city, whose 

 proud palaces are crumbling to dust. Lamar- 

 tine marked its blossoms, too, on Carmel, whose 

 " excellency" still remains, for it retains its 

 beautiful vegetation to a greater degree than, 



