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perfonification of the plant has every grace- 

 ful charm of a languid, beauty. 



The Rubia, Madder, a plant ufed for the 

 purpofe of making a crimfon dye, is com- 

 pared to Medea bending over her caldron, 

 in which youth was reftored by immerfion. 

 It is an apt allufion to the faded beauty, 

 who reftores her loft bloom by rouge. 



Vallifner, a curious aquatic plant of the 

 Rhone, apoftrophifes, when, in her human 

 form, the ftars and moon, filming at mid- 

 night on the ihores of her watery home ; and 

 the fea-wecd, Ulva, with her young family, 

 guarded on the deep by Halcyons, ferves to 

 introduce the famous Galatea in her Ihelly 

 chariot, dsawn by Dolphins over the Ocean. 

 She has more ftate and more fuperb at- 

 tendants on her maritime progrefs, than 

 Europa, in the fecond Canto of the Eco- 

 nomy of Vegetation, or than the Nereid, 

 in the third ; though in the piclure of 



Galatea 



