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to give place to new blossoms, of which there is a constant succession. It is some- 

 times called the Tree Primrose and the Evening Star. Near Woodbridge, in Suffolk, 

 large tracts of land are covered with this pretty plant, and the Quaker poet Bernard 

 Barton, who spent the chief part of his life in that town, has written some lines on this 

 his native flower which must always be associated with it : — 



" Fair flower, that shun'st the glare of day, 

 Yet lov'st to open, meekly bold, 

 To evening's hues of sober grey 

 Thy cup of paly gold. 



I love to watch, at silent eve, 



Thy scatter'd blossoms, lonely light, 

 And have my inmost heart receive 



The influence of that sight. 



I love, at such an hour, to mark 



Their beauty greet the night-breeze chill, 

 And shine 'mid shadows gathering dark, 



The garden's glory still. 



For such 'tis sweet to think awhile, 



When cares and griefs the breast invade ; 

 In friendship's animating smile, 



In sorrow's dark'ning shade. 



Thus it burst forth, like thy pale cup, 



Glistening amid its dewy tears, 

 And bears the sinking spirit up, 



Amid its chilling fears. 



But still, more animating far 



If meek religion's eye may trace, 

 E'en in thy glimmering earth-born star, 



The holier hopes of grace. 



The hope, that as thy beauteous bloom 



Expands, to glad the close of day, 

 So through the shadows of the tomb 



May break forth mercy's ray." 



SPECIES II— OENOTHERA ODORATA. Jacq. 

 Plate DIX. 



Hoot biennial or annual. Stem erect, usually simple, herbaceous. 

 Leaves subsessile, the radical ones strap-shaped, attenuated at 

 both ends, remotely and sharply denticulate-serrate ; stem-leaves 

 lanceolate, waved on the margins. Flowers in a terminal leafy 

 spike. Free part of the calyx-tube longer than the ovary and 

 calyx-segments. Petals inversely-deltoid, obcordate, yellow fading 



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