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Hibiscus Crionum. Naturar Orver: Malvaceae — Mallow Family. 
.VANESCENT, as its familiar name indicates, this handsome 
<\, annual was imported some years since from Italy; its botan- 
- ical name is made up of the generic hibiscus, or mallow, 
and Trionum, of the constellation known by that name to the 
Romans, and to us as Charles’s Wain. The flowers are 
similar in shape to the single hollyhock blossom, and are 
about two inches across the top, the petals being a sulphur or green- 
ish yellow, and the base of each a rich maroon brown. ‘There are 
various other plants and shrubs under the general name Hibiscus, 
some of which in the South Sea Islands grow sufficiently large to 
be used with the bamboo in the erection of houses, such as the peo- 
ple of that latitude require. They thrive best in moist, sandy soil. 
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Sriffing Beauty, 
RUST not too much to that enchanting face; 
Beauty ’s a charm, but soon the charm will pass. 
—Dryden. 
HAT transitory flower, even while it lasts, EAUTY, like the tair Hesperian tree, [guard 
Palls on the roving sense when held too near, Laden with blooming gold, had need the 
Or dwelling there too long; by fits it pleases, Of dragon-watch with unenchanted eye, 
And smells at distance best; its sweets, familiar To save her blossoms and defend her fruit 
By frequent converse, soon grow dull and cloy you. From the rash hand of bold incontinence. 
—Feffery. —Milton, 
O not idolatrize; beauty ’s a flower, 
Which springs and withers almost in an hour. 
—William Smith. 
OVE raised on beauty will like that decay; EAUTY, sweet love, is like the morning dew, 
Our hearts may bear its slender chain a day, Whose short refresh upon the tender green 
As flow’ry bands in wantonness are worn — Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show, 
A morning’s pleasure, and at evening torn. And straight is gone, as it had never been. 
-- Pope. —Daniel. 
OVE built on beauty, soon as beauty dies; 
Choose this face, changed by no deformities. 
—Donne. 
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