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CEUtaUlia CmilUS. Natural Order: Comfositce — Aster Family. 



ENTAUREA is said to derive its name from the centaur 

 Chiron, the fabled son of Saturn, who was cured by an 

 ;. application of it after having been wounded in the knee by 

 K a poisoned arrow from the bow of Hercules. Another myth- 

 ological narrative sa3's that Chiron's wound w'as incurable: 

 but that, having been born of immortal parents, he could not 

 ic and was consequently placed by the gods in the firmament as a 

 (instellation, being called Sagittarius. The plant is a hardy annual, 

 ikI grows about two feet high. The blossoms vary much in color, 

 ppeanng singly on the ends of the branches. 



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e smile of voung and old, he 

 ted at the banquet, and distir 

 ows dull and sultry, he may 



wins the praise ol' ; 

 juished at the ball ; 

 iy to green retreats 



A welcome visitor in turn at twenty country seats; 

 He need not seek society, for, do whate'er he can, 

 Invitations and attentions will pursue the single mar 



A BACHELOR 



May thrive, by observation, on a little; 

 A single life 's no burthen ; but to draw 

 In yokes is chargeable, and will require 



—'Johii Ford. 



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A double maintenance. 



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II', ' tis tor myself alone ; 

 wish to have a sweetheart nc 

 Nor would I call another's heart my o\\r 

 Nor have a gallant lover to revere me: 



WIFE! Oh, fetters 



To man's bless'd liberty! All this world's prison, 

 Heav'n the high wall about it, sin the goaler; 

 But th' iron shackles weighing down our heels 

 Are only women. —Decker. 



For surely I would plight my faith to none, [me : 

 Though many an amorous cit might jump to hear 

 For I have heard that lovers prove deceivers. 

 When once they find that maidens are believers. 

 — From Michael An^elo. 



'pHE ills of love, not those of fate, I 

 These I can brave, but those I can 



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i not m our power - 

 what seems strange 



is not in our choice. 



