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l!lupl)fa oisl'OSisStlUa. Naturai. Order: Lvt/iracccv — Loosestrife Family. 



VT t;iounds in some parts of the United States produce this 



[\ annual, the stems and calyx of which are covered with a 



\ i->cid or gummy substance, whence the epithet viscosis- 



ni.i, while the Greek word kiipJuea denotes gibbous or 



^_ ^ I ed, from the shape of the calyx. The flowers appear 



^ ' ^ -'''"^1} <it the axils of the leaves, the seed capsule bursting before 



I'. The L'uphea platycentra (broad-centered) is a foreign variety grown 



a house plant, which blooms profuselj- at all seasons, and accomodates 



'If to nearly all locations. Its flowers are small, scarlet, and tubular, 



yrkl' with a black and white tip. 



T^OST tliou so hunger for my empty chair, 



^ That thou «ih needs invest thee with my honors 



Before thy liour be ripe? —Shakespca 







NOTHING rash, my sire! By all tliat 's good 

 Let me invoke thee — no precipitation. —Coh-ridge 



^^ATAY, 



let me in," said she. 

 Before the rest are free. 

 In my loneness, in my loneness, 

 All the fairer for that oneness. 

 For I would lonely stand. 

 Uplifting my white hand. 



On a mission, on a mission, 

 To declare the coming vision. 

 See inine, a holy heart, 

 To high ends set apart, — 

 All unmated, all unmated, 

 Because so consecrated." 



—Ellznhelh Barrel! Brmm 





OPREAD the s.ails! behold! 



^ The sinking moon is like a watchtower blazi 

 Over the mountain yet; — the City of Gold 

 Von cape alone does from the sight withhold; 

 The stream is fleet — the north breathes steadily 

 Beneath the stars, they tremble with the cold! 

 Ye cannot rest upon the dreary sea! — 

 Haste, haste to the warm home of happy destiny 

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