No. 90. 
SILENE PUSILLA. 
Class. Order, 
DECANDRIA TRIGYNIA. 
This pretty little plant is a native of the 
Alps, and lately introduced here: it is per- 
fectly hardy, and thrives in a small pot in 
light loamy soil: it may be increased by 
dividing the roots or by seed, which it occa- 
sionally produces. The season of flowering 
is from May to August, when its delicate 
blossoms of purest white, like little * stars 
of earth,” cannot fail to delight us. While 
musing on such a pleasing subject, the mind 
may sometimes soar above this lower world, 
and catch a glimpse of that future and ex- 
alted state of being, in which “ the wise 
shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, 
and those who turn many to righteousness, 
as the stars for ever and ever,” 
