PREFACE. VU 



to guard their tiny households from the 

 dangers of the night, I have thought what 

 a theme for meditation to the passer-by ! 

 And, thus thinking, I have given to such 

 flowers a more appropriate designation, as 

 it seems to me, than that assigned by 

 Linnaeus, by calling them, Flowers of the 

 Matin and Even Song. 



