FLORA DOMESTICA. 



weather. Cuttings from this species, planted in summer, 

 placed in the shade, and regularly watered, will take root 

 in five or six weeks in the open air. 



The Trailing Heliotrope, from the Cape of Good Hope, 

 and the European, are hardy annual plants, which may be 

 sown in September or October, kept in the open air, watered 

 as the others, and will flower in July and August. 



The Heliotrope is said to owe its existence to the death 

 of Clytie, who pined away in hopeless love of the god 

 Apollo. 



" She with distracted passion pines away, 

 Detesteth company ; all- night, all day, 

 Disrobed, with her ruffled hair unbound, 

 And wet with humour, sits upon the ground; 

 For nine long days all sustenance forbears ; 

 Her hunger cloy'd with dew, her thirst with tears : 

 Nor rose; but rivets on the god her eyes, 

 And ever turns her face to him that flies. 

 At length, to earth her stupid body cleaves: 

 Her wan complexion turns to bloodless leaves, 

 Yet streak'd with red : her perish'd limbs beget 

 A flower, resembling the pale violet ; 

 Which, with the sun, though rooted fast, doth move ; 

 And being changed, changeth not her love." 



SANDYS'S OVID, Fourth Book. 



The name Heliotrope is sometimes given to the sun- 

 flower, commonly so called : (Helianthus) as in the following 



" There lovely flowers profuse, 

 Appear as vivid stars ; 

 The snowy rose is there 

 A silver moon, the heliotrope a sun." 



ANDBEINI'S ADAM. 



