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LolU'lia tultlEUS. Xatuual Order: Lohcliaccxv — Lobelia Family. 



■^^''I^iV ' (,®/T is difficult to sel>ict from this class of plants the one pos- 



<.->\TT^c,'~ ^^^ssin<^ the most claims to our attention, as they are all 



nj ^iV'i^<-'xceedinoi3- pretty, though very diverse in habit. Some of 



^*^;;^ iheni grow upright, others spread their slender branches in 



3j' *^':, the most wanton manner. There are about eighty species 



'"•^^ of them, which, with the exception of about a dozen, are 



.cs of the Cape of Good Hope. These have been improved by 



1^ liyDridizing. The flowers of most of them are an exquisite blue, a few 



^- .j^ h\-bridizin, 



■^^^1^ are white, and others are of the different shades of crimson, purple. 

 T^^l maroon and scarlet. The delicate varieties are fine for hanging-baskets, 

 the upright ones for garden or window culture. 



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Xii\. 



IT E hated men too much to I'eel remorse, 



And thought the voice of wrath a sacred call, 

 To pay the injuries of soine to all. —Byro. 



I'LL keep my way alone, and burn awav — 



Evil or good I care not, so I spread 

 Tremendous desolation on my road ; 

 ril be remember'd as huge meteors are; 

 From the dismay they scatter. —Proctor. 



T .SEE thou art implacable, more deaf 



To pr.iyers than winds and seas ; yet winds and seas 

 Are reconciled at length, and sea and shore: 

 Thy anger, unappeasable, still rages, 

 Eternal tempest, never to be calm. —Milton. 



'yHERE are some things I cannot bear. 



Some looks %vhich rouse my angry hate, 

 .Some hearts whose love I would not share. 

 Till earth and heaven were desolate. —Willis. 



OUT turn the heart's sweet current into gall, 

 Xo earthly power can heal the deadly flow 

 'T will poison the affections, till the blood 



Grows venomous and fiery, and beneath 



Its blasting influence are wither'd up 



The springs of love and hope. —Mrs. Hale. 



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HEV did not know how hate can bin"n 

 In hearts once changed from soft to stern. 



-Byro, 





