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76 BOTANY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 



L. SONG OP THE MONADELPHIAN TRIBES. 



We come the highway sides to grace, 



And to strew the banks with Maha flowers 



With gay Geraniums varied race, 

 We have decked the lanes and woodland bowers. 



On the marsh in the shade of verdant hills, 

 Her blossoms Althea delights to rear, 



And deep in her green retreat distils 

 The healing balm to the shepherd dear. 



Boldly we brave the blast and storm, 

 Unmoved by ocean's tempestuous roar, 



While fair Lavatera erects her form, 

 And hangs her wreaths on the sandy shore. 



SEVENTH CONVERSATION. 



E. The 61ass Diadelphia, or two brother- 

 hoods, includes all those flowers that have three 

 stamens connected at the bottom, but divided 

 into two sets. It includes a great natural 

 order which Linneus called, from the butter- 

 fly-shape of the flowers, the Papilionaceae, from 

 a word meaning butterfly. Here is a Sweet 

 Pea blossom, in allusion to the shape of which 

 Keats remarked : 



Here are Sweet Peas on tiptoe for a flight, 

 With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white. 



