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Icitcritiu. Natural Order: Loasacece — Loasa Family. 



ORMING a class of plants by themselves, the Loasas give 

 their name to an order of which there have been discovered 

 about seventy species; and those of peculiar beauty. Some 

 of them recline their long, branching stems upon the ground, 

 ' like the golden bartonia ; others, like the Loasa, grow to a 

 ^ greater length, and have more aspiring natures, rendering them 

 especially fine for the covering of trellises, arbors, or rock work. The 

 \^ flowers are curious; the outer petals, of which there are live, have 

 each a hooded appearance, while within the center are five more of 

 'P a diflierent shape, the whole being filled with numerous stamens, like 

 a delicate tringe. In training the plant, gloves should be used, as 

 the hairs with which the plant is covered produce a stinging sensa- 

 tion. The blossoms are red or yellow. Pleasures, like this plant, 

 some precaution in handling, lest they sting in the enjoyment. 



ILEASURE with instruction should be joined; 

 So take the corn, and leave the chaff behind. 



-Drydel 



"DUT pleasures are like poppies spread — 



You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; 

 Or like the snow-fall in the river, — 

 .\ moment white, then lost fore\'er. 



qPHERE rich varieties of joy 

 ^ Continual feast the inind; 

 Pleasures which fill, but never cloy 

 Immortal and refined. 



11 7E may roam through this world like a child at a feast, 



Who but sips of a sweet and then flies to the rest; 

 And when pleasure begins to grow dull in the east. 

 We may order our wings and be off to the west. 



AND while the face of outward things we find 

 -'*■ Pleasant and fair, agreeable and sweet. 

 These things transport. _i-,v y Davies. 



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"TTIS time short pleasure now to take, 



^ Of little life the best to make, 

 And manage wisely the last stake. 



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