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4 Way- faring Tree ! what ancient claim, 

 Hast thou to that right pleasant name? 

 Was it that some faint pilgrim came, 



Unhopedly to thee, 

 In the brown desert's weary way. 

 'Mid toil and thirst's-consuming sway, 

 And there as 'neath thy shade he lay. 



Blessed the Way-faring Tree !" W. Huwitt. 



ELDER. SAMBUCUS. 

 ' COMMON ELDER. Sambucus niger. 



Plate 4, fig. 2, 



The Elder may well be called common ; it grows in hedge- 

 rows and cottage gardens on cliffs, rocks, and ruins in dry 

 spots and near the water ; and wherever it may be it yields an 

 abundant crop of white fragrant flowers and round purple ber- 

 ries, sickly indeed in taste and hurtful when eaten, but their 

 fermented juice furnishes a pleasant and wholesome wine. The 

 flowers are used to make an ointment, and when boiled with 

 water give to it a sweet pleasant scent, called then Elder- flower 

 water. The stems are full of pith, and the "wood very hard 

 and white. 



O. S. Dwarf Elder, or as it is sometimes called Dane-wort, is a 

 poisonous shrub, which bears pink flowers of a very disagreeable scent. 



THRIFT AND SEA LAVENDER. STATICE. 

 COMMON THRIFT. Statice armeria. 



Plate 4, fig. 3. 

 Flowers in a single round, terminal head. Leaves linear. 



The Common Thrift is found scattered over many parts of 

 England, sometimes on the muddy sea shore at other times on 

 the tops of mountains. The leaves are linear, and all come 

 from the root, which is tufted and fibrous. The flowers are 

 pink, collected in a round head (called by children Pincushions,) 

 and partly inclosed in a scaly calyx, that ends below in a brown 

 dry sheath, running some way down the flower stalk. 



" Tis this, which rustic neatness leads, 

 Kound the trim garden's walks and beds, 

 Whose globe-like tufts of blossom throw, 

 O'er the green marsh a rosy glow. 

 Nor less, where Alpine regions lift 

 Their misty tops, the hardy Thrift." Bishop Mcml . 



