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called star shaped. Tn most of the chalky 

 lands of England it is abundant, but it is gene- 

 rally rare in sandy soils. 



The flo^\er of the succory opens at eight in 

 the morning and closes at four in the evening, 

 and suggested some verses to a poet, true to 

 nature. 



" On upland slopes the shepherds mark 

 The hour, ^vhcll to the dial true, 

 Cichorium, to the towering lark 

 Lifts her soft eye, serenely blue. 



Thus in each flower anrl simple bell, 

 That in our path untrodden lie, 

 Are sweet reniemlirancers, which tell 

 Hov/ fast the winged moments fly." 



Alas, we little heed those silent teachers, or 

 the more emphatic monitions of holy writ, of 

 the fleeting nature of our time ! yet the flowers 

 bloom in beauty, and preach their lessons to us 

 as tliey did to our fathers ; and the Bible gives 

 us its more direct and solemn warnings ; but 

 men live on and heed them not, and pass their 

 fleetinir lives as if the world were their final 

 resting place. 



The common sow thistle, (Sonchus oleracens,) 

 a plant known to every schoolboy as the food 

 of his tame rabbit, and which is equally relished 

 by the wild rabbit of the warren, has the same 

 properties as the succory ; and, like that flower, 

 is full of milky juice. Its young leaves arc 

 sometimes eaten. This plant is termed by the 

 American settlers, gall of the earth, and is 

 thought by them to cure the bite of the rattle- 

 snake. 



And now by every wayside and waste place 



