gooseberry. e genus embraces both the pings and goose- 
berry, of oth of which, there are many speci 
exclusively from the isthmus of Cor soceatiy ex its name. 
modern times, its culture is poke over all the r regions in 
ood 
grows vine, and is called a s 
have no seed-stones, and are red or black 
The barberry and currant, must escape, 
Tho’ her small clusters imitate the grape. Tate’s Cowley. 
Of shrubby species, there are several highly rome in 
the hry per blos: ch ti various ¢ — flowers and fruits. 
othing in the form it, can be more gracefully beautiful, 
than the clusters he wins peck; aud red, tastefully inter- 
mixed. 
The R. aureum, with its golden blossoms, in form and ag 
like the jonquil, and R. se uined, . its crimson flow 
are fine specimens sof those of our own ¢ gt Ds cen on fhe 
banks of th i Columbia h many others, 
as noticed yo our saeitey and indefatigathe | travellers, Lew 
and Clark 
mn the A A lst Fy Foh ie. a os lis 
a 
mong the very few plants to be found in that frozen region, 
a, ext fi t grateful and any sare 
offering ©: voted lo se open g to the eye, and to the 
most refin set oor and att the e time eyincing his desi: ire to 
do all int her 
It may well ~ 6 supposed, shat the oor. oppressed villein pea- 
sants, of. ahet n have hig tle ue gg 
not confined to clim oy or ——— and may glow wer even 
more intensity in the bosom of the solated being to whom all 
is heart, being re his aim—for ‘which alone, he lives,—all 
ie is left to him tyranny and oppression. ‘The merr 
glance of the mo So maid,’? often imparting a cheering 
that lightens the load of his thankless labor. 
CYPRESS, COMMON. 
CUPRESSUS SEMPERVIRENS. 
Class 21.—MONGCIA,. Order.—MONADELPHIA. 
. Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss 
CONIFER. CONIFER 
Cupressus, Pie two Greek words, Kuo to produce, and 
PARISOS equal y of its branches. 
_ Cypress, E B. Ix cupressus, from t the Greek KUPARISSO sft 
Or, ace ording to to Ovid, from Cyparissus, a youth b oved by 
Ho, w who, in ey at ‘having inadvertently } ern ae favor- 
urnin: 
frien 
might be made it Nee and was by xe grote into a 
Cypress Tree, the branches of which were always used at 
Himself he would have slain thro’ desp’rate grief: 
What said not "Phoebus, that night yield relief! 
To cease mourning, he, the boy desir’d, 
C more than suc’ requir’d 
But he, incessant griev’d: ai h address’d 
To the jor pow’rs a i 
Praying, in expiation of his crime, 
That ee mourn ™ all —- time, 
Apollo arr 'd on, me sighing, cry’d 
n, be for ever, what thy Ler fab imply’4; : 
hard by me, in others grie e; 
And still preside at ev’ry fun’ral rii 
Congreve’s Ovid. 
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ling care, 
Whose hand adapts, w: with her skill, the strings | 
Congreve’s Ovid. 
“The Cypress is the emblem of mourning.” Shaks. 
The Cypress that oad pote oe grave, 
Is sorrow that mourns Percival. 
On account 0 the gloomy. hue ts leaves, especially in 
winter, it was esteemed by the ten a ener! ornament of 
ia to Pl rpin 
‘ e pe 
their stead. Many of the chests which enclosed 
mmies, are made of cypress, affording a decisive proof of its 
most incorruptible nature. "The wood is ca capable of a fine 
ish i fi 
Leaves imbricated in four rows, abeuell hah oy convex ; 
strobes saiebeeti scales a wnless 
th 
e pane , Dec iduous Cypres ess—sometimes called Bald Cy- 
press. os Hes ae of the largest trees in North America, being 
found, mes, seventy feet cima thirty feet in circumfer- 
ence at the em of the ground, a ah seer re ee oe ee 
vs ix = hp wha ranches extend almost horizon 
heli emer ave been compared to 
pa nr , larger, with stronger scales than ere of 
ssi 
abounds in it. Cypress shingles are in 
24 th lact fort 
y net 
The learned Sir Thom s Browne remarks, that the word 
camphire, to be found iaake 14th verse, Ist chapter of the 
‘Song of Solomon,” cnet ye been translated Cypress. 
nown to the ancients. “My beloved 
vine of Cypress, which eoneied * “as sweel bush of 
flowers, out of which w Cypri ad 
Also observing that “ the « expression drives at the “kupros of 
Dioscorides, some oriental kind of Ligustrum or 
which Dios and Pliny me mention under the name of kupros and 
cypress.” 
DAFFODIL. 
GREAT YELLOW DAFFODIL. 
NARCISSUS MAJOR. 
Class 6. -HEXANDRBIA. 
Daffodil—supposed, cera oter Ae Aspho- 
delus. Rod ephndcas in deined BY Ainsworth, to be the 
Dafa two sorts, white and 
Historica tells us that ‘this lower was evidently 
sidered a ind of lily by early writers, and we are of opinion 
consid: : 
that the name is a corruption of of Dis’s lily, as it is supposed to 
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