HANDFUL VII. 



" Then think I of deep shadows on "the grass, — 

 Of meadows where in the sun the eattle gra«e. 



Where as the breezes pass, 

 The gleaming rushes lean a thousand ways." 



RlTSSBX.t LOWBIiL. 



Just let us remind our readers that we are among 

 the straight-Veined monocotyledons or one-seed 

 lobed plants, and that this second great division 

 of the vegetable kingdon is itself divided into two 

 sections, the petaloid plants and the glumaceous 

 plants, or those in whreh the floral envelopes are 

 more or less corolla or flower-like, and those which 

 have only chafly scales to inclose and protect their 

 essential organs of reproductidn — the stamens and 

 pistils. 



With respect to the petaloids, we need scarcely 

 say that the beautiful blossoms we reviewed in 

 Handful VI. all belong to the section, but there 

 are a good many other genera also claiming to be 

 admitted within the petaloid boundary, which are 

 by no means so flower-hke. Indeed, some of them, 

 because they cannot show a proper flower, seem as 



