Loasa, 
Loasa lateritia. Narurat Orpver: Loasacee —Loasa Family. 
77, ORMING a class of plants by themselves, the Loasas give 
_, their name to an order of which there have been discovered 
about seventy species; and those of peculiar beauty. Some 
of them recline their long, branching stems upon the ground, 
like the golden bartonia; others, like the Loasa, grow to a 
cf flowers are curious; the outer petals, of which there are five, have 
Jes each a hooded appearance, while within the center are five more of 
a delicate fringe. In training the plant, gloves should be used, as 
the hairs with which the plant is covered produce a stinging sensa- 
tion. The blossoms are red or yellow. Pleasures, like this plant, 
require some precaution in handling, lest they sting in the enjoyment. 
Pleasurg. 
LEASURE with instruction should be joined; 
So take the corn, and leave the chaff behind. 
—Dryden. 
UT pleasures are like poppies spread — HERE rich varieties of joy 
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Continual feast the mind; 
Or like the snow-fall in the river,— Pleasures which fill, but never cloy, 
A moment white, then lost forever. Immortal and refined. 
—Burns. —Anne Steele. 
E may roam through this world like a child at a feast, 
Who but sips of a sweet and then flies to the rest; 
And when pleasure begins to grow dull in the east, 
We may order our wings and be off to the west. 
—Moore. 
ND while the face of outward things we find »'TIS time short pleasure now to take, 
Pleasant and fair, agreeable and sweet, Of little life the best to make, 
\ These things transport. —Sir F. Davies. And manage wisely the last stake. 
—Cowley. 
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