%% FLORA DOMESTIC A. 



The Amaranths are chiefly natives of America, and very 

 few are supposed to grow naturally in Europe ; yet Sir W. 

 Jones speaks of them as if growing wild in Wales : 



" Fair Tivy, how sweet are thy waves gently flowing,, 



Thy wild oaken woods, and green eglantine bowers, 

 Thy banks with the blush-rose and amaranth glowing 

 While friendship and mirth claim their labourless hours !" 



Among other flowers which derive their origin from un- 

 happy lovers, Spenser mentions the Amaranth. I do not 

 find to whom he means to refer here : 



" And all about grew every sort of flower, 

 To which sad lovers were transformed of yore ; 

 Fresh hyacinthus, Phoebus' paramour, 

 Foolish Narciss, that likes the watery shore : 

 Sad Amaranthus, made a flower but late, 

 Sad Amaranthus, in whose purple gore 

 Me seems I see Amintas' wretched fate, 

 To whom sweet poet's verse hath given endless date." 

 FAIRY QUEEN, b. iii. c. 6. 



Again, near the conclusion of the gnat, he says 

 " Red Amaranthus, luckless paramour." 



ANDROMEDA. 



ERICINE^E. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Marsh cistus ; wild rosemary ; poley-mountain ; moon- wort ; marsh 

 holy-rose. 



THIS plant was named by Linnaeus, from the daughter 

 of Cepheus and Cassiope, who was exposed at the water- 

 side, and rescued from the sea-monster by Perseus. Thus 

 a name in botany, especially in the works of this great and 

 illustrious naturalist, is often made to tell two stories that 

 of its classical prototype and of its own nature. 



The Marsh Andromeda, which is a native of America 

 and many parts of Europe, is also a plant of our own ; 



