Thujt, the name of a tree, whose very durabl e wood poets 
Its roots, 
thi us Oxicedru 
the dscuiniige, - wich tei he Hawkins 
most a ncie nt statu made. Our prese ween us 0 scot 
has ith th etna 
ne very 
durable wood ; put it is not a native of eonoaier or the Levant. 
Cyclopedia. 
pecies sary ated are, the American arbor — pint 
Occidentalis, called White C bor Vite 
“Tn the first of these ie gaa there a: ve great 
nd the variegated- 
ada to hie moun- 
It is rather scarce in 
found on the steep banks of 
orth America, from Can: 
orth Carolina. 
n ot and only 
uja "fecibuabatis is an evergreen tree of humble 
wench inanched 
compressed haere _aspect ‘of its younger | shoots, and thei 
with a a pint 
growt 
smooth j those o peri op 
n 
solitary, terminal: | the males ye me his an nd m t abundan 
+h 
filbert k kere, cage see Se of “about wears a anne lax, smooth, 
les. of the bruised plant is aromatic, 
apes is not hard, but tough, and ex- 
c 
The A. - Decumbens, a Saki of the tuberosa, has also bright 
m decumbent, a foot and a half high. 
opposite ; umbel c compact, at the 
iry; leaves harr oy a, 
pasa of the sie 
- cased varieties, acne etc. The general 
» Sharp, Vv 
ee corolla mmonopetalos, "an or 7h agg ve-parted ; 
nectaries five, grow. o the tube of the filaments, eee 
fort h a sharp little end Siatediel from the bottom, bending 
wards, 
The Asclepias Sy Piet or Syrian esindcagl -wort, abunds nt in 
A ch in 
t f thei ery small 
A ? 
uce 
ant, more particula -: that 
"The Canadians are said ma 
may be converted 
coraeee stem divided at the top; umbels erect, tw 
? 
thioh 
~ + 
a 
of which are produced close umbels of pink flowers in August. 
ASPEN TREE. 
POPULUS TREMULUS, 
Class 22.—practa Order.—POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn, Nat. Ord. 
AMENTACER, AMENTACEX 
ah ere evergreen in our - 
de ens, ats at oat same fn wi rmer. The vi 
mo rect, mo) a 
hose of he former, 
and the leaves are furrowed, without any resinous dot. ‘The 
young branches two-edged ; leares imbricated i in four furrows, 
‘ompressed, vate. hat rh 
Teac scales of the cone obtuse, and remarkably hooked, with 
a recurved dorsal point. 
and only friend is he, 
Who, like the Arbor Vite tree, 
‘Will bear our image on his heart. Sir Wm. Jones. 
ASCLEPIAS, 
Order.—DIGYNIA. 
the god of 
ciently co’ 
is fro: ch Swaluw-wortel—from the fancied resoma- 
blance of the seeds to a swallow flying. The seeds a Senge, 
as ort of many other rater which facilitates their dissem- 
being 1 more easily bo me off by the wind, 
useful genus of rest “The tender shoots of ae 
asparagus. furnishes a silk or co’ 
e down 
ng ms otieees and manufa ctured in various ak 
‘uberous-rooted Swallow-wort) 
| variously denominated: as Pleurisy, or re a 
plant, from its medicinal virtues: ore eed, from its be- 
ative of Vi and 
in the royal garden at Facipiusoare, een 
its leaves, Bear’s 
6 
me, con se een 
Possi bly ly pe Gre ek verb Pa 
to move with tremulous motion, a 
d Latin na 
we Pi oti conclusive. 
or PEPALLO shake, 
have been g asis, 
The English word Aspen is probably derived from the Greek 
ASPAIRO, to quiver—Saxon spen—Arabic Gashafa, to be agi- 
tated. 
This species of Populus aga ar is remarkable iow the vi- 
bratory motion of its leaves, which are attach t-stalks 
so font and slender as to be sensible to the lightest motion of 
the air. 
gale disturbs the tree: 
No 
Nor Aspen leayes confess the worchensen breeze. Gay. 
Tremble 
Oh! had the monster seen those lily hands 
like Aspen ] lute 
No cymbal clash’d, no clarion rang, 
pipe 
There _— *d no wind their crests to shake, 
e their — — 
Scarce the frail Aspen m’d to quake, — 
That shadow’do’er their road. 
AURICULA,. 
PRINULA AURICULA, 
Class 5.—PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. 
PRECIE. 
Order.—MONOGYNIA, 
Primui name given to th 
of Herma ere Primus,) a 
genus to which that fav ss aor belongs: ; though, as he re- 
sabes tings, P 
co tri a es ee es 
device) “a the outside, the flap of me ear; Pte auris, ie 
the ear. Tha‘ of primrose, called from the shape of 
3 ear. 
