No. 667. 
PHYTEUMA VIRGATA. 
Class. Order, 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
A native of Mount Lebanon. Its beauti- 
ful blue flowers are in perfection in the 
months of June and July, when its height 
is generally from one to two feet. Itisa 
tolerably hardy herbaceous plant, and may 
be kept either ina pot or in the border, 
and is but sparingly increased unless the 
seeds come to perfection, which does not 
often occur. It is seldom of long duration, 
being one of those plants which are apt to 
perish in the winter. Such precarious pos- 
session is not without its use. If duly con- 
sidered, it is but an emblem of the uncer- 
tainty of terrestrial things altogether: it is 
well to 
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a by the t of G d’s will alone, ‘ 
Is in tl f their Lord, 
ith thee, or misc thee 2 “a word ; 
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protee 
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