82 BOTANY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 



Pluck not her flowers like the Saxon maid, 

 Nor anxiously watch if they flourish or fade, 



By the moon of a midsummer night ; 

 Nor aloft as a spell hang her tassels of gold, 

 Like the Cambrian swain, nor like Druids of old, 



Bid them wave in mystic rite. 



But follow with light steps the golden star, 

 That guides you to treasures more sterling far, 



Than cities or courts can give ; 

 Dear nature has pleasures in every hour, 

 Ah ! love her in youth and you learn her power 



To charm you as long as you live. 4 



E. Our present class, Syngenesia or flowers, 

 with a union of anthers, contains a great num- 

 ber of the vegetable tribes of the late flowering 

 kind, mostly blooming sometime in autumn. 

 What were the characteristics of the brother- 

 hood or delphian classes ? 



L. A union of the filaments while the anthers 

 were separate. 



E. Exactly the reverse of that is the case in 

 this instance. This class, however, is distin- 

 guished by the compound characters of its flow- 

 ers, several hundreds, and even thousands, 

 being on the same stalk next each other, and 

 giving to the casual observer the idea of a single 

 flower. But let him examine closely, and he 

 will find an astonishing number of perfect little 



