92 BOTANY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 



,. SONG OF THE MONOECIAN TRIBES. 



Queen of the Meadows we bend to thy sway, 

 And gladly our sylvan tribute we pay ; 

 From the flowing stream we bring to our chief, 

 Sagittaria flowers with their arrowy leaf, 

 And the reed like Typha, the sceptre fair, 

 That our rural Sovereign delights to bear. 

 Eupliarbia we bring from the wild sea shore, 

 And the sedgy Carex from lake and moor. 

 i v ! Nor these alone our treasured store, 



For our l?eec/i-masts fatten tbe forest boar, 

 We have Cameron's Oak and McGregor's Pine, 

 And Buchanan's Birch to yield us wine, 

 And Highland Hazel of bold Colquhoun, 

 While Mackintosh brings the box for a boon. 



Queen of the Meadows we bend to thy sway, 

 And gladly our sylvan tribute we pay ; 



E. The class Dioecia, or Two Houses, con- 

 tains those whose stamens and pistils are in se- 

 parate flowers on separate plants; the orders, 

 like the former, depend on the number of sta- 

 mens ; hence there is but little difference be- 

 tween this and the Monoecian class, it contain- 

 ing, like the latter, many forest trees. 



Perhaps the most remarkable genus in this 

 class is found in the order Triandria the Ficus, 

 or Fig, noted for containing the flowers within 

 the fruit. What is commonly termed its fruit 



