136 BOTANY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. 



sunk, till the Governor of Loxa hearing of her 

 danger, sent her a quantity of the new remedy 

 by which she was speedily cured. The countess 

 name was Chin con, from which the bark has de- 

 rived its technical appellation. 



TVVELTH CONVERSATION. 



L. I have been thinking that as the grass 

 tribes are mostly annuals and require seed every 

 year to keep their species in existence, they must 

 gradually diminish, for the cattle undoubtedly 

 eat up the plants, seeds and all, and there will 

 come a time when the whole will be consumed 

 and we shall have no more meat on account of 

 the want of grass to feed the animals whose 

 flesh furnish it to us. 



E. Instead of calculating how soon such des- 

 titution would take place you would, if a true 

 naturalist, look for some contrivance of Provi- 

 dence to avert such a dreadful evil. 



Part of your statement was incorrect, you 

 took it for granted without much, if any, exami- 

 nation. The cattle do not eat up the whole 



