WILD FLOWERS. 



COMMON NETTLE. 



Urilca didlca. 



Welsh, Danadlen. French, Ortie. German, Brennessel. 

 Dutch, Brandenetel. Italian, Ortica. Spanish and Por- 

 tuguese, Ortiga. Polish, Pokrzywa. 



LINNJEAN. NATURAL. 



Moncecia tetrandria. Urticeae. 



THE least ornamental objects are certainly not al- 

 ways the most useless, nor the least interesting; an 

 observation which especially applies to the nettle. 

 Growing in waste and neglected places, boasting 

 no beauty to attract the eye, no pleasant frag- 

 rance to delight the sense, shunned and dreaded 

 on account of its painful sting: it is yet, when 

 more closely considered, not only a plant of the 

 greatest utility, but one which most amply repays 

 microscopic examination by the surpassing beauty 

 of its structure, while it acquires additional interest 

 from the circumstance of its belonging to one of 

 the noblest and most highly prized families of the 

 vegetable kingdom. 



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