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The buds of the roseate flowers expand 

 As if waked to life by the music bland ; 

 Princess receive from the nymphs of the spring, 

 The Butomus blossoms thy votaries bring. 



L. When speaking of the Class Pentandria, 

 I noticed the fact that almost all the flowers had 

 not only five stamens, but five petals and five 

 sepals ; I might have said that where the num- 

 ber varied it would be most probably a multiple 

 of five, as ten or fifteen. The same rule pre- 

 vails in other classes, where you have three sta- 

 mens, there will be generally three, six, or nine 

 petals and sepals. As might be expected from 

 this, the different classes that are multiples of 

 each other have considerably affinity. And it 

 is so between this class Decandria, or ten sta- 

 mens, and the fifth class. The American Sen- 

 na Cassia, is here, a valuable medicinal plant ; 

 though a larger dose is required of it to produce 

 the same effect than the Senna of the shops, yet it 

 is rapidly supe reeding the imported, and we will 

 soon, probably, use it altogether instead, as phy- 

 sicians of the present time show a disposition to 

 rely as far as possible on the resources of their 

 own country. The Pinks, you know, are in 

 this class, as are the Wintergreen. Pipsisseway, 



