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Degonia Mscolor. Narurat Orper: Begoniacee— Begonia Family. 
0 EGONIAS were so named by the French Botanist, Plumier, 
in honor of Michael Begon, a governor of Santo Domingo, 
and a patron of science. They are natives of Jamaica, Brazil, 
} the East and West Indies, and other tropical countries. The 
SIVA Ele large-leaved varieties have been vulgarly called Elephant’s 
Wea Ears, which they may perhaps resemble ia shape, but the 
Elps 2 exquisite beauty of their coloring eliminates from the mind every 
“ugly and unpleasant synonym. Some of them are a dark green with 
a band of silver, or groupings of silver blotches; or again entirely bronze, 
according to the individual plant. This species is grown chiefly for its 
foliage; the flowers are mostly white or faintly tinted, blooming on 
short stems. There are several kinds, however, with small waxy 
leaves that make a splendid appearance when in bloom, being hand- 
Whe some in color and of fine texture. The stems of the large foliage 
variety are very much distorted. 
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Detormity. 
HE did corrupt frail nature with some bribe EFORMITY is daring; 
To shrink mine arm up like 4 wither’d shrub, It is its essence to o’ertake mankind 
To make an envious mountain on my back, By heart and soul, and make itself the equal — 
Where sits deformity to make my body; Ay, the superior of the rest. There is 
To shape my legs of an unequal size; A spur in its halt movements, to become 
To disproportion me in every part All that others cannot, in such things 
Like to a chaos. —Shakespeare. As are still free for both. -- Byron. 
M I to blame if nature threw my body And as from chaos, huddled and detorm’d, 
4% In so perverse a mold? yet when she cast The gods struck fire, and lighted up the lamps 
Her envious hand upon my supple joints, That beautify the sky; so she intorm’d 
Unable to resist, and rumpled them This ill-shap’d body with a daring soul, 
On heaps in their dark lodging; to revenge And, making me less than man, she made me more. 
Her bungled work, she stamped my mind more fair, — hee. ( 
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