18 FLORA DOMESTICA. 



purple Amaranth, interwoven, would make a beautiful mix- 

 ture, especially as the Amaranth is deficient in leaves. 



One of the most popular species of the Amaranth is the 

 Love-lies-bleeding. The origin of this name is not generally 

 known; unless we are to suppose it christened by the 

 daughter of O'Connor, in her tender lamentations over the 

 tomb of Connocht Moran : 



" A hero's bride ! this desert bower, 

 It ill befits thy gentle breeding : 

 And wherefore dost thou love this flower 

 To call my love-lies bleeding ? 



This purple flower ray tears have nursed ; 



A hero's blood supplied its bloom : 

 I love it, for it was the first 



That grew on Connocht- Moran' s tomb." 



The Amaranths are chiefly natives of America, and very 

 few are supposed to grow naturally in Europe; yet Sir 

 W. Jones speaks of them as if growing wild in Wales : 



" Fair Tivy, how sweet are thy waves gently flowing, 



Thy wild oaken woods, and green eglantine bowers, 

 Thy banks with the blush-rose and amaranth glowing 

 While friendship and mirth claim their labourless hours !" 



ANDKOMEDA. 



ERICINE^E. DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Marsh cistus; wild rosemary; poley-mountain ; moon- wort; marsh 

 holy-rose. 



THIS plant was named by Linnaeus, from the daughter 

 of Cepheus and Cassiope, who was exposed at the water- 

 side, and rescued from the sea-monster by Perseus. Thus 

 a name in botany, especially in the works of this great and 

 illustrious naturalist, is often made to tell two stories that 

 of its classical prototype and of its own nature. 



The Marsh Andromeda, which is a native of America 

 and many parts of Europe, is also a plant of our own ; 



