No. 1700. 



ASPLENIUM MONANTHEMU^r 



Class. Order. 



CR YPTOGAMIA FJLICES. 



Thid is a native of the Cape of Good 

 Hope : we tave cultivated it for some time 

 in the stove. It was known to Linnaeus as 

 a figure talien from a specimen in his Her- 

 barium : has been published by Sir J. Smith, 



in his Icones. 



It increases slowly by separating the root, 

 and should be potted in sandy peat earth. 



We know not how to conclude another 

 volume better than with the beautiful lines 

 of our favourite poet : 



" O blest proficiency 1 B\irpa??:itig all 

 That men erroneously their giory call ; 

 The recompense that arts or arms can yield, 

 The bar, the senate, or the tented field- 

 Compared with this suMimest life below. 

 Ye kings and rulers, what have court? to show > 

 Thus studied, used, and consecrated thus. 

 On earth what i-s, seems formed indeed for us ; 

 Not as the playlhin.^ of a frouard child. 

 Fretful unless diverted and beguiled, 

 Much less to feed and fan the fatal fires 

 Of pride, ambition, or impure desires. 

 But as a scale, by which the soul ascends 

 From mighty means to more important ends^ 

 Securely, the' by steps but rarely trod. 

 Mounts from Inferior beings up to God, 

 And sees by no fallacious light or dim, ^^ 



Earth made for man^ and man himself for Him. 



