BALSAM FAMILY. 



He who through Nature's various walks surveys, 

 The good and fair, her faultless line pourtrays, 

 May range, at will, bright fancy's golden clime, 

 Or musing, mount where science sits sublime, 

 Or wake the spirit of departed time. 



PLEASURE OF MEMORY. 



The only plant in the XXI Order, is the BALSAM, 

 or TOUCH-ME-NOT (Impatiens Noli-me-tangere). This 

 name is given to it, on account of the curious pro- 

 perty of the seed-vessel. It has 5 elastic valves, 

 which, if you touch them, burst open, and scatter 

 their seeds, to a great distance. The valves then 

 become twisted like corkscrews. The plant is 1 foot 

 high succulent, brittle : the flower, bright yellow, 

 spotted with crimson : in form like the single Balsam 

 so often grown in pots. It grows in moist shady 

 woods, in a few counties, but is oftener to be seen in 

 shrubberies, in flower from July to September. 



