THE SUNDEW. 31 



SUNDEW. 



Drosera. 



Welsh, Y Doddedig rudd. French, Eossolis. German, 

 Sonnenthau. Italian, Eugiada del sole. Dutch, Sonne- 

 daauw. Spanish, Eociada. Portuguese, Eossolina. Rus- 

 sian, Tolneznaja trawa. 



LINN^EAN. NATURAL. 



Pentandria. Droseracece. 



Pentagynia. 



IT is an axiom, that while every locality, every 

 natural situation, has perceptible differences in the 

 character of its several beauties, not one is desti- 

 tute of beauty of some description : beauty, per- 

 haps, which may be totally invisible to the distant 

 surveyor, to the careless passer-by, to the unenquir- 

 ing observer ; but which yet grows more and more 

 upon our minds the more closely, and the more 

 intelligently, we examine into it ; the more earn- 

 estly we seek to read in it the lessons which the 

 Almighty Creator has "written for our learning" 

 in every natural object which exists in His world, 

 His earth, and His heavens. 



How chilled, how desolate, become our feelings as 

 we gaze on the sad monotony of some dreary swamp, 

 or unwholesome morass. How monstrous, in their 

 dark sterility, do they appear ; and justly so ; for it 

 is just that whatever is left as an uncultivated 



