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Unknown and unadmired our race, 

 Springs up and blooms and fades away, 



And few have sought our resting place, 

 Or watched our buds from day to day. 



Yet in the simplest blossoms dwell, 

 Such proofs of power and wise design, 



As to the wandering spirit tell, 

 The hand that formed them is divine. 



E. Our last Class Cryptogamia, or Concealed 

 Marriages, forms in itself a ground division of 

 the vegetable kingdom. In all the flowers in 

 it, neither stamens, pistils, or proper seeds, are 

 recognisable even by the microscope ; a different 

 arrangement prevails. Their propagation is 

 carried out by means of sporse. which though 

 confessedly the most simple of all organized 

 bodies have appropriate receptacles provided 

 for them, proving, as Nuttall remarks, the exis- 

 tence of the universal law of nature, that with- 

 out a parent mediate or immediate, neither ani- 

 mal nor vegetable, in whatever part of the scale 

 of existence they are found, can possibly have 

 a being. 



It has been said that Linneus having arrang- 

 ed the plants that would admit of classification, 

 took the remainder and cast them into a heap 

 together, which he called Crvptogeamous. He 



