;reflexed. The stamens 
sng to seven or high, with 
species are 
3. 
» Clerodend ‘on, is from the Greek rrr 
or fortune) and DENDRON < (tree a ca among the specie 
are designated th 
~ Cler o. fortunatum, i isashru 
stems. mye eld or three 
ioles, a thi the anh of the leaves. Flowers rata nd 
lowi a4 white, axillary in small corymbs; filaments nearly 
corolla, Native of the East Indies, 
“i h al, sl ig ghtly as 
nches long, more re than 0 e broa 
f 
Clero. i. bao m, i BaP ‘of from three to seven feet 
high. Roo fibrous, jellow, or Foden. * Ste ms, cylindrica cal 
r the root. 
eart-shaped, 
green, with a Roa 
nder surface covere 
ofa bright scarlet, (ometimes 
f fort oe 5) in a terminal 
yral of Malabar, and 
other sandy pa ed of the East In ation 
The 
talt 
us 
e"sclentifc, ought to be sunk wt ar of Clero- 
tel by ‘Linneus to the mory o of Dr. 
th century, who died at Nuremberg, 
ra native vin ve ae 1744, at the age of eighty-two. — 
of "Tourne fort, Loerhaave, ans ae 
nent cotemporar 
V. Acculeata ( ray V.) is the only one of — genus spe- 
ci ified in the books to which we have had access os “The 
orignal Volkameria, haying the pretended distinction of, firs' 
the segments of the corolla being turned one way, cojually 
e berry having two aaa, 
of ~ > 2 
S, growing abun- 
gravelly so m ive or six feet high 
Leaves lanceolate, bluntish, entire, from an inch and a 
two long, nearly smooth, pale, and mminntely. dotted aug 
Corolla cream-colored, wit 
— V. inermis of Linneus, and V, bone +. a aa 
now, y agree 
in habit with the vn ‘plant, that we caniot but ‘nist 
any generic distinction which separates them.” See Mee 
Encyel 
Pind Japonica, a plant usually found in our as 8 s, has 
ooking like 
te- 
a rich clustering of the most delicate was work, with 
ful fragrance. The leaves are several inches broad, Sisis in 
proportion. 
CLOVER RED. 
TRIFOLIUM, 
Class. 17.—DIADELPHTA. 
inn. 
eApiiow a 
folium, the TRIPHULLON of the Greeks—Trefle of f the 
—DECANDRIA 
all expressive of the same idea, of three-leaves, 0 or 
on one stalk. 
Cher, E. more properly claver. Dutch klaver 
no doubt from the Saxon word clafer, to poke wigs a 
ie’ ie nce of the cloven leaves. 
mniores | clover wort. Dutch klaver. 
The D. word signifies a club. signifies club-grass, 
elub-wort. Latin clara, a club, aoe pay wes) — Webster. 
The different species of Trefoil thd ays contract their leaves 
rm: hence these plants have been 
in abundance 
f numerous flowers, th 
and “combined with the seen male rere say PR 
3 bloo: 
all pecip acct hrough, 
abundant return of prod to those who have the ‘industry ry tp 
attend p omit rell-kn 
perenn nial plant, of the artificial grass kind, wh 
ome do. One 
oad clover + will go as far in feeding oo as 
The best cloy er-seed i that 
oneyed Lotus. * fiom 
about Rome, the bees, yo 
y 
n Virgi ila pretty notice of the — in — 
his long endeared native wilds. 
> 
ae ay © my goa > & once atce ppy flocks! away! 
obs i Le rural lay: 
NS e I lie, 
Shall 1 “vehold 3 ‘ing from rocks on high: 
No more shall tend ye, 
The ee oil flow’rs, or willow’ 3 harsher boughs.’ » 
sa rock, 
Saint Patrick, epereye tutelar saint of Ireland, ,) is said, white 
preaching to the pagan Irish, t am- 
rock, toexpla in pane Goetriie ‘of the Trinity yiw hich s0 operated 
ce wor 
oO 
y of the saint, cminnenphentions 
he onder id we bea was Ss tastitnted by George III. in 
1783. The is r red, on a field azure, 
surrounded er a ‘oe ock, or aaa vert, — sy it 
three i mperial et ia within a garter, 0 
++, 5. BE + 
The ae 
is surrounded = a mar of ativhe, with eight potats; ‘all w hich 
is em seeps dere 
of the o: 
COCK’S COMB; on, CRESTED AMARANTH. 
CELOSIA CRISTATA. 
Class ws —PENTANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
rd. Linn, 
HOLERACER, 
Celosia, the ic name of this g Beefare 
from the Greek KetLeos, brilliant, or 
enchant. shew: English name Cock?s inate ani wine the "French 
aaaae ind or mass of flow: ers, bears to the crest, or sie of 
a coc 
Itisa 
China, and paneer that ‘the crests, 0 or heads of the wet are 
readth. 
n annual plant, with angular, striated stems: 
i ocheon acute. , sometimes 
a little ¢ : flowers so numerous and small, and so closely 
set together, on an irregular, flattish surface, as to look more 
like a piece of spice velvet, than a vegetable substance, some- 
times branched a the base, The form of the crests are so 
ive t e colors, 
bn fae jighin red, purple, white, and sometimes varie 
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