srxopsis. xv 



CLEMATIS.— See synopsis. p. 149. 



PLUMBAGO, from plumbum, lead. N.O., Phimbaghiaecee. Lin- 

 n.ean : 5, Pentandria ; 1, Monogynia. — Herbs or shrubs with alternate 

 leaves, and regular flowers consisting of one-pieeed calyx and corolla, each 

 divided into four or five lobes. Stamens as many as the lobes, and placed 

 opposite to them. A comparatively unimportant order, the principal 

 members of which are the statice or sea lavender, the acantholimon, and 

 the plumbago. All these are useful in one way or another in the arts and in 

 medicine, some of the statices being employed in tanning leather, and the 

 leadworts being emetic when taken internally, and powerfully stimulant to 

 the skin when applied externally. p. 153. 



INCOMPARABLE DAFFODIL.— See under "Narcissus," 

 in synopsis. P- 157. 



" Broods there some spirit here? 

 The summer leaves hang silent as a cloud, 

 And o'er the pools, all still and darkly clear, 

 The wild wood-hyacinth with awe seems bowed ; 

 And something of a tender cloistral gloom 

 Deepens the violet's bloom. 



" The very light that streams 

 Through the dim dewy veil of foliage round, 

 Comes tremulous with emerald-tinted gleams, 

 As if it knew the place were holy ground ; 

 And would not startle, with too, bright a burst 

 Flowers, all divinely nursed." 



