368 MEMOIRS OF 



Moaning with fallen ftrain, 

 While fweeping o'er the plain, 

 Deftru6tion ends her work. 



Arum, of the clafs Gynandria, or mafcu- 

 line ladies, becomes an Amazon, in the 

 modern military garb, and it's appendages. 

 Dejanira exchanging her diftaff for the 

 lion-fpoils of her mighty lover, illuftrates 

 the Haram in a beautiful poetic picture. 



The mule-flower, produced from the union 

 of the Dianthus Superbus, Proud Pink, and 

 the Caryophillus, Clove, produces, in the 

 transformation of it's parent flowers, a 

 whimfical but highly ingenious companion 

 to the Periian fable of the amours of the 

 Nightingale and the Rofe. With roman- 

 tic, but exquifite fancy is this amour, and 

 it's beautifully- monftered offspring, made 

 out. That curious plant, the Chundali 

 Borrum, whofe hiftory and ftrange habits 

 are defcribed in a note to the paflage, is 

 preceded by an African landfcape of fublime 

 features, beneath the rage of the Summer 



Solftice, 



