“ADONIS, FLOS. 
ADONIS, 
Class 13.—POLYANDRIA. Order.—POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. inn, Nat. Ord. Jus 
mULeisiitau m RANUNCULACEZE 
That this flower owes its name to the favorite of Venu 
not } to be disputed ; but whe ther the Goddess of Beauty ch 
, or the Anem one, wou ld be difficu lt 
decide ,— since the Lin 
love upon earth: and prev 
tanist, the Adonis was considered to be one of the Anemones, 
inh ¢ 1 Wh 4 2 fh 7 a A. 
Flos (L.) a flower, a bloom, a blossom. 
Look, in the garden, blooms the Flos Adonis, 
And memory nett o him who rashly d ied, 
y Venus, weeping, to this flow: 
Anonymous. Garland of five. 
Ovid os md — the Anemone, as being the subject 
of this metamorphos 
‘Then on the is ry sweet nectar she es 
The scented blood in little bubbles ros 
uittle as rainy drops, which fl rane fy : 
] b nds along a low’rin 
t *d, till where the blood ea shed, 
flo’ to: 
Such as c pples i is revea al’d, 
Or in the filmy rind but half conceal ‘d. 
the phi Ane 
ble tormy blasts a pre Vy 
sickly beanti ties ark ae d pine away, 
be: winds fo rbi a the flo W's to flourish long, 
” 
Eusden’s Ovid. 
reat quantities of the 4 
ite Aut eae. 
ndon market, = sold b 
c ord Burleigh, who w: 
him: great lover of smrineaie and had the best _ ction of 
mr bleman in bse wont, ) the 
“4 
nnual, flowering from mrs to October 
that the _ ue is is a — heaved periantheum, sare the le dilcta 
e corolla 
sei 8 rm hes to me but most ere ight, po As ob- 
bee cera petals. The stamina consist of yery short fi 
and the anther are oblong and inflex: the pi 
has numerous germs collected i in a head, no styles, and acute 
AEBS! 
seeds numerous, gene angular, 
ALMOND: 
AMYGDALUS. 
Class 19.—1cosANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. uss. 
bseacein: 
hs. cng: in hose. applies to the Almond, Peach and’ 
tarine trees. 
papier ane ond tree, Gr. Amugdalon. 
ve ee a "Enelih) a <A almonds. 
) Almendra, Sp eal snc tay” eb 
' emanidicla. 
dezived by Menage from 
eae 
The lion atv be rgly ofthe ane ‘ies 
as the Peach; and by cultivation may be transformed i into the 
peach. Sir “Thomas Knight, who entertained this opinion, 
The pollen 
of the pie was Sanger se over the almond-blossoms, _ 
from nine blosso e 
a 
a re 
aE 
s 
opened in the manner of almonds, and die i 
The Almond is the earliest tree that puts “forth its blossoms 
in Syria, and and promise of 
a fruitful season: its seagewhile — e appear on the bare 
branches, eanieiada anied by lea \ 
| <i nig the eps. almond in the wood 5 
f odorous blooi e bearin; g branches load, 
The athe will answer to th eign, 
I 
Great heats na follow, and eg crops of grain; 
But, ifa 
x 
I 
F 
wood o: 5 
uch, and 80 fnceoa will the harv est be; : 
in the fl 
d shall 
n vain hind 
‘or empty straw and chaff will be thy store” 
Drckiite Virgil. 
reo hi 
f£ Hope: 
“The Hope, in dreams of a pain hour 
That alights on misery’s bro \ 
i out of the silvery atest Slower, 
loo: 
at blooms on a leafless bough.” Moore. 
We presume that Aaron’s rod was taken from the Almond 
geen 
And behold, the rod of Aaron, for the house of Levi, was 
indilded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and 
‘oon almonds.” (Numbers xvii. 8.) 
L » A, Communis, _ Faget resembling 
glandular; 
now 5 
fruit, which is flatter, with a Shilowa r-li 
i i of the peach and nectarine, open- 
eously when the kernel is ripe. 
Iti s a a native haf Barbary— —_ cultivated in Baa and the 
Franc t is common in China, and most of the 
por countries. According to Miller, the A. Comsins is 
r its fruit; 
ere two varieties, the sweet ii the bitter ; 
which — ~ arise from the fruit of the same tree: 
resh, but will not keep long. 
It is the es of the A. Dulcis, or -m rdan 
red in commerce. is has a f 
kernel. . The leaves are broader, s 
than those of the common sort, and their e 
The flowers are very small, and to 
white. The trees have been often raised from the on, which 
is import 
The 7: Pumila, double-floweri 
e beauty 
f =e ch is prefer- 
-almond, is a shrub 
hati " 
le serrated. 
sessile. Caly ye: reddish 
arginate, red, longer th 
ments paler; germ and style seh at bottom ; stipules 
linear and very deeply serrate. Its native country Africa 
ALTH EA, 
HIBISCUS SYRIACUS. 
Class 16.—MONADELPHIA. _ Order.—ProLyANDRIA, 
Nat. Ord. Linn. a0 ~~ Juss 
tcharewse IFERA. 
Hibiscus, a name given by Linneus to oneal a stated of 
the Mallow tribe, which had eng? recei ived E? barbaro 
or or ill-constructed appellations, _ 
