94 EVENING PRIMROSE. 



have seen the evening-primrose, or the even- 

 ing-star, as the plant is sometimes called, 

 gradually expand her primrose-tinted leaves, 

 looking fairer, and becoming larger, and per- 

 fuming the vagrant breezes as they passed, 

 while other flowers were closing ; till at 

 length when the moon had risen, or, per- 

 haps, only stars looked down from their 

 high stations in the heavens, this fragrant 

 flower had tluro\vn open all her stores, and 

 busy creatures might be seen repairing thither 

 as to a nightly banquet. Those who pass 

 tlurough one of the wildest portions of the 

 vale of Clwyd, may see this favourite flower 

 growing in great luxuriance, and attaining 

 to the height of several feet, on the road-side 

 between Denbigh and Ruthin. It was seen 

 there, by a youthful botanist* who has ceased 

 from among the living, during the summer 

 solstice, when the nights are neither light 

 * Mr. W. Christy. 



