FLORA DOMESTIC A. 



instruments should be brought ; and as she gave charge, 

 Dioneus took a lute, and Fiametta a viol-de-gamba, and 

 began to play an excellent dance : whereupon the queen, 

 with the rest of the ladies, and the other two young gentle- 

 men (having sent their attending servants to dinner), paced 

 forth a dance very majestically, and when the dance was 

 ended, sung sundry excellent canzonets, outwearing so the 

 time until Parmeno commanded them all to rest, because 

 the hour did necessarily require it. The gentlemen having 

 their chambers severed from the ladies, curiously strewed 

 with flowers, and their beds adorned in exquisite manner, 

 as those of the ladies were not a jot inferior to them. The 

 silence of the night bestowed sweet rest on them all. In 

 the morning, the queen and all the rest being risen, ac- 

 counting overmuch sleep to be very hurtful, they walked 

 abroad into a goodly meadow, where the grass grew ver- 

 dantly, and the beams of the sun heated not over violently, 

 because the shades of fair-spreading trees gave a temperate 

 calmness, cool and gentle winds fanning their sweet breath 

 pleasingly among them." The company then sit down, and 

 the celebrated novels commence. 



It is still a common custom in Sweden to strew the floors 

 with sprigs of Juniper *. 



KALMIA. 



RHODORACEuE. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



So named by Linnaeus in honour of Peter Kalm, professor at Abo 

 in Sweden. 



THE Kalmias are handsome shrubs, bearing flowers in 

 clusters, of a rose or peach colour. The Broad-leaved 

 species grows much higher than the others : they must be 



* See Clarke's Travels, vol. iii. 



