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£j)COpOllium romplanatum. Natural Order: Lycopodiacece — Club Moss Family. 



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^YCOPODIUM is one of the humbler types of vegetation 

 that in the earher stages of our globe occupied a place of 

 higher rank, and attained a size more worthy of consideration, 

 \ as some of the specimens now existing in a fossil state amply 

 \, show. When other and more important vegetation made 

 ''"'its appearance, the less useful descended to a minor and 

 moie obscure position, till now it scarcely more than lends variety to 

 the scene This mossy plant has a round stem, and is frequentl}' 

 tound creeping along the ground in woods that are moist and shady, 

 bemg some five or six feet in length. There are several greenhouse 

 varieties useful for ferneries and hanging-baskets, but they require con- 

 siderable moisture to grow well. The name signifies leveled or hori> 

 zontal wolf's-foot. 



'T'HERE are fancies strangely bitter in tlie surge of this restless sea, 



And hopes, and dreams, and memories, all rising mournfully; 

 The waves that are softly breaking, with stai-ry luster kissed, 

 Summon a host of phantoms out of the ocean-mist. 



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Rfid. 



pRIEV'ST thou that hearts should change? 

 ^ Lo! where life reigneth 

 Or the free sight doth range, 

 What long remaineth? 



Spring with her flowers doth die; 



Fast fades the gilded sky; 

 And the full moon on high 



Ceaselessly waneth. —Aiionvmot 



pOME, now again thy woes impart, 

 ^ Tell all thy sorrows, all thy sin; 

 We cannot heal the throbbing heart. 

 Till we discern the wounds within. 



— Crabbc. 



WIND-HARP 



■ 'Neath Zephyr' 



ivelled into perfect song 

 soft touch; 



Boreas did it a grievous wrong, 

 For he smote it too much — 



He smote it so rudely, its delicate chords 



Wailed in musical pain. 

 Saying, in plaintive and mystical words, 



" We accord not again ! " 



—Ho-.vard Gh" 



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