Cuphea. 
Cuphea viscosissima. Naturar Orver: Lythracee—Loosestrife Family. 
,sima, while the Greek word kuphea denotes gibbous or 
¥ curved, from the shape of the calyx. The flowers appear 
singly at the axils of the leaves, the seed capsule bursting before 
ripe. The Cuphea platycentra (broad-centered) is a foreign variety grown 
itself to nearly all locations. Its flowers are small, scarlet, and tubular, 
* with a black and white tip. 
Qupatiency, 
OST thou so hunger for my empty chair, 
That thou wilt needs invest thee with my honors 
Before thy hour bé ripe? —Shakespeare. 
NOTHING rash, my sire! By all that ’s good 
Let me invoke thee —no precipitation. —Coleridge. 
66 AY, let me in,” said she, On a mission, on a mission, 
“Before the rest are free, To declare the coming vision. 
In my loneness, in my loneness, See mine, a holy heart, 
All the fairer for that oneness. To high ends set apart,— 
For I would lonely stand, All unmated, all unmated, 
Uplifting my white hand, Because so consecrated.” 
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 
PREAD the sails! behold! 
The sinking moon is like a watchtower blazing 
Over the mountain yet;—the City of Gold 
Yon cape alone does from the sight withhold; 
The stream is fleet—the north breathes steadily 
Beneath the stars, they tremble with the cold! 
Ye cannot rest upon the dreary sea!— 
Haste, haste to the warm home of happy destiny. 
—Shelly, 
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