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How cheerful along the gay mead 
The Daisy and Cowslip appear. Milton. 
Pale Primrose, in whose cup, 
The pearly dew glitters. B. Barton. 
The uncommon beauty of the American Cowslip, or aman; 
occasioned Linnzus to give it the arertis none name of Dodec wien 
a word derived from the Greek p lye, and THEO 
wap —supposed to allude to the pu heathe en Gods, 
think, to the twelve Cesars. retained Mea- 
Cates 
a specific name. tag at in his natura natural his tory of Caro- 
ses it the generic nam eadia, in honor of Dr. Richard 
Mead, a ty enlightened prenen n ‘ordinary to to G 
I. of d, He s well for his 
great skill ill and science in his profession, as for “his liberality 
in Ca’ dteartonem of Bas ote ample ortune—a patron ton of sc science 
mine: 
hin toe every pen pany — was courted ye — 
all Europe. 
The e flowers of Meadia are e singularly beautiful—drooping 
that 
are reflexed, or turned back over the calyx, giving the appear- 
are orming 
a brilliant gilt point. K pects Chest Bayi & H nity be 
found in “Darwin’s Botanic Garden 
It 
is a hardy perennial, easil ly raise raised from the seed—or by offsets, 
which should be taken from the old plants sometime in August, 
i e necessary vigor before the 
is necessary to them. 
as they are very impatient of heat. 
CROCUS. 
Class 3.—TRIANDRIA, Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ne st Nat. Ord. Juss. 
ENS. E 
Crocus, a vat name, translated by Ainsworth, “Saffron ;” 
chives \ 
also “the yellow c in the midst of flowers.” 
Ski 
Carcom, of the He ebrews, who held it in'm much estimation. It 
and poets. 
bestia hag Tagen Apa pace Daag. rate odorous 
aromatic stigmas of the Crocus sativus, or adenchion native of 
Greece, and. Asia Minor. Which, Stas tis etal uction into 
England, has been called Walden, because breasts 
Bein ae chiefly near or about the town of Walden 
Song. 
Fabulous history derives the name Crocus, from a youth 
sin hagas the alata ehes adios adie donot. 
afterwards, changed into the flower bear- 
Crocus and Smilax,* may be turn’d to flow’rs, 
Eps hunted legends, ale a 
And, with swnb hiveadep; your tose with gbildet 
Eusden’s Ovid. 
The Crocus is one of the earliest spring flowers. 
There is, also, an autumnal eta The colors of the 
ees are ‘purple, yellow, white, e 
Fair ont spring unbosoms every grace 
Throws out the Snow-drop, a: vot the Crocus: first. Thomson. 
Glad as the spring, re ne first Crocus comes 
To laugh amid the show Marvin. 
The general chara a eaktewaden is a spathe transparently 
membranous, one or sat aved. Corolla monopetalous, fun- 
nel-shaped ; tube v very ire sixpartel, rar border with 
y equal di 
CROWN IMPERIAL. 
FRITILLARIA IMPERIALIS. 
Class 6.—HEXANDRIA. der .—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. Nat. Ord. 
CORONARLE, LILIA 
Fritillaria, from 
vec hich, in wan sense, saiaes to the enna nature of 
e ls. 
Fritillu 8, however. 
K; perso to have pm the amos yoond ‘of 
the dice. 
parent —<A dice-box to throw dice out of.— Ainsworth. 
The common Fritillaria, or cheque ily, F. Meleagris, is 
F, 
with purple, or with different whites, 
tive of Persia, 
called in Europe, Lilium Persicum, but, as there was already 
another Persian lily growing int the European ga 
Pancias, physician to the Duke of Florence. This title seem 
o have been ado: opt ted in all the European lan nguage 
Modern i f Fr itilla- 
ria on a yeas of plants, of which this is, from its noble de- 
portment and brilliancy of coloring, considered the sovereign. 
bid ar ae height bowpoke command, 
imperi 
for Flora’s hand, 
The sceptre of her power.” 
The F. ph eaten: has a te scaly bulb root. It is an he 
of quick growth » feetid, tw 
lowers a 
which have the 
answering for the clapper the whi 
com 
a, Or 
being: cro rowned bys 
effect. The colors most adm ‘orange, lemon, and 
brilliant red. There isa janany with hy leaves, and 
one with a ie stem. 
But to breathe fragrance on the morn, 
Proud gorgeous flower, was never thine. Fables of Flora. 
Then heed ye not the dazzling gem 
That gleams in Fritillaria’s diadem. Evans, 
CURRANT. 
Class 5.—PENTANDBIA. Order.—_MONOGYNIA. 
. Ord. oqeat thal Juss, 
POMACZ, 
Ribes, is said to bean Arabian name, denoting the acidity of 
the plant. The word in Ainsworth, is simply defined a red 
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