BOTANY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 73 



L. SONG OF THE TETRANDYAMIAN TRIBES 



Blossom of the time-worn tower, 

 Fragrant Wall-Jtower thee we bring, 



To be our chieftain's chosen flower, 

 And round his paths thine odors fling. 



Emblem of love, sincere and warm, 



And friendship that survives the storm. 



Oh ! faithful flower 'mid grief and woe, 

 Still wreath the tempest shaken tower, 



And on the mourner's pathway throw 

 Thy sweetest scent, thy fairest flower : 



Still blossom on the early grave, 



And o'er the scene of ruin wave. 



E. We must now consider the brotherhoods, 

 as the names of the three next classes signify. 

 And first, Monadelphia, or one brotherhood. In 

 this class are included all those flowers that have 

 the filaments of the anthers united in one set, 

 thus forming a tube at the bottom of the corolla. 

 The orders depend on the number of anthers 

 or pollen boxes. 



L. You cannot then have an order Monan- 

 dria, it would be in the class of that name, as it 

 takes more than one to be united with another. 



E. Certainly not ; the first order is Triandria, 

 in it is the Sisyrinchium, which is common in 

 our fields and meadows about midsummer ; it 



