in vain, for 
or meaning of the word as ier. And we 
ee chan that Be b has taken the oran'ge-colored bags of Rosa 
lutea, or Austrian rose, for Linnwus’ rubiginosa, or European 
Sweet Brier. 
We retain the name of Rosa rubiginosa for our puree 
sweet brier, as being indisputably certain, peculiarly expres- 
ned by Jacquin, Roth, some indeed 
in Remes, pedia. 
Skinner, who has just b mi the following 
etymology: “ Eglantine, Belgic ntier, yeaa Gallic, 
lantier, Aiglantier, dnglntne Cynosbates, (the e, eglan tine) 
the wildrose. Minshew, I know not how well, derives ches — 
~_ cave and Greek, Echinus (an urchin, 0 r hedge-ho a 
Pa Pig 
age derive it from the Latin Aculeus, (a 
herbs, burs, hedge-hogs, etc.) as it were, teas’ 
tinus sear a for it is defended tad many thorns. It maya 
be speciously derived from the Belgic Eghel, a ahe edge-h 0g ; 
takes its rise 
from the Latin acces (a doing hes oh = this animal is, in 
, furnished by nature with pric! 
te > part, this mete of a 
aculeus 
from the Greek ‘word ean (in Latin), acies “(the oh 
aculeus is pricks) sharp pointed, like a needle : the Sweet 
Brier, therefore, seems to have received its name of reg 
from the rot of its thorns,” 
Rubiginosa, one of its science ite is florid. 
has flower: 
sweet scent, and a full and uniform pink color 
ne 
cal figure, with strong, 
slightly ny: the under, clothed with reddish viscid non 
and delightfully fragrant. Fruit, scarlet, internally m and 
insipid. 
There is a small-flowered sweet brier, R. beg reine with 
paler flowers and amar the les ofthe B ritish roses, 
Poetry is full of the fragrance of ee Releation: 
Come, gentle air, 
And with the oe divine, 
rich perfume, 
Smith. 
n Hoynee te leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, 
SAMBUCUS NIGRA, 
Class 5. -—PENTANDEIA, Order.—TRYGYNIA. 
d. Ji 
Sa’ us, e Greek SAMBUKE, an ia Ys of 
music, in the entation of which, this tree is used, on ac- 
count of its sesidons : so says De Theis 
(See ee Rees’ Sonate eer 
E., German holder, or hohlund It 
At! ‘ebste ve 
—_ isa ire bushy tree o} ee 
oO 
ly stalked. ame: 
r, dark pu yaa rer aay oo un- 
as i a whole 
r bark, 
flowers, leayes, berries, all have their peculiar medicinal vir- 
The Sambucus canadensis is very abundant in the United 
but Fungus sambucinus, and c 
pay of me _ wae Tudas Tidartohs pon a conceit he hanged 
$ tree :— is become a fam medicine in quincies, 
trethrat png ayes rg ever since.”” See his inquiries 
ulgar erro 
The healing aie like compassion mild, 
Lifts her meek flowers amid the pathless wild. 
Flora’s Interpreter. 
Where scatter’d wild the liyariheval ii 
Her balmy essence breathes Thomson. 
EUPATORIUM 
Class 19. Tieden hoe om Order.—POLYGAMIA QUALIS. 
inn. uss. 
womrosrtia DISCOIDE. CORY MBIFERm. 
tes, surnamed Lanner —. is 
ify his constituti 
pen ad not entirely, 
igen rng 
8 enol 
sg 4 white, Frege. or nigger 
Whole a aes roughish, sates, 2 
ral of t d,on account of 
r aromatic and bitter cua Among Eieee are E. Ses- 
aefeen, E. Perfoliatum, and E. Aromaticu 
EVERLASTING. 
GNAPHALIUM. 
Class 19.—sY¥NGENESIA. Order.—-POLYGAMIA SUPERFLUA. 
Nat, Ord, Linn. Nat. Ord, Juss. 
- COMPOSIT NUCAMENTACH, — CORYMBIFERE. 
Gnaphalium, the GNAPHALION, an ancient 
Greek name; from GNAPHALON, soft down or wool, alluding 
herbage. 
to the wootiness of the ber 
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