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As if the yawning hill to heaven 
A subterranean host had given.” 
And when, after a suitable pause, the chieftain “waved his 
hand”— 
* Down sunk the disappearing band ; 
Each warrior vanish’d where he stond, 
In broom or ken, heath or wood ; 
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It may well be supposed that this sudden apparition, which 
startled and appalled even om dauntless Fitz-Jame es; might 
i nta] vision, and as c threaded the mazes of 
“Byer, by stealth, his ey 
1e groun: und, 
ina still from, copse and nd heather deep, 
Fancy saw spear and bi ord peep.” 
Lady of the Lake. 
FEG: 
FICUS. 
Class 3.—TRIANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA 
at. . Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss. 
SCABRID®. URTIC, 
icus, cheveg of tain derivation. Fig, English. 
This nsive genus s produced abundantly in the islands 
of the Archipela go, but the fruit, it is said, is inferior to that 
of European and ee rican growth. 
e greatest singularity exhibited by this tree; is, that the 
re so o carefully concealed from obseryation, as that 
not eve! 
s, from flower vio fruit, has been perfected, a most delicate 
paar A fruit is exhibit 
Still to the eye of the ‘common eerie no flower has ever 
become visible ; its fra, agrance, i ts hid- 
sweets, lie unsuspected u 
such as is best suited to ort cing ini and briers of this 
ork 
grow £; 
Homer describeth in the garden of Alcinoxs.—See Sir 
Browne. 
FILBERT, or HAZEL. 
Class 2) —monazcta. Order.—POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss, 
a AMENTACE®, 
L. supposed to be _ Karu of Dioscorides, 
Karva, Gr. is neared @ walnut tr 
ihe is i uevainsed. The etymolo; 
of the English word Filbert, uncertain, ma 
ee BI se 
vitude, was by him exchanged for o battheabent lyre of 
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et ines genus Corylus is indigen ous to Furope, America, etc. 
no tree is found but the hazel. Anim- 
me species, known by the name of Spanish nuts, are the 
best—and were said to have been originally imported by the 
Ro n ivated i 
of experience know to be a work of sieae idee site 
rom sets, will bloom the myrtle, plant of love; 
ae quite full-grown, transplant the hazel- inher 
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And after enumerating several trees, fav’ orites of the ee 
Se oe a nymph ycleped Phillis. 
The laurel, Pheebus love es5_ 
Phillis, the hazels: while the ey gain her prai: 
Myrtle, to them shall yield, and Phabus’ sea. Ecl. 7 
so great a favorite with the oniptes bard, as to be 
Geis with the opening of his 
** Why sit we e not beneath the ttl shad 
Which hazels, intermix’d w ms, “aa made, e 
This ' preference of ih sek Phillis for the hazel, brings to 
opular name filbert o + filberd, 
- illustrated by a fragment of old En = poetry, appende 
o Dr. Johnson’s definition. We mu mclude the Phillis 
i h 
phoon, on his n fi r 
Athenian, after having — her ateciions, ion eu with a 
promise of — t the Que een grow: regs asthe 
on acco’ euie 
° Filbe ey tree, and 2 vi ws was = — spay into 
this tree, as a lastin ng monume the perfi oth her lover. 
According to an old tradition mention d by rh yius soot 8 
commentator,) this tree was ca led by the Seceke PHYLLA 
account of this transformat. 
Phillis 
Was shape i into a patie ree, 
py tree was cle aed in ak yerd: : 
And yet for Dem } 
Unto this day it t h th Confess. Amantis, v4 
Shakspeare, in Aon a pega description of the equipage \ i] 
of. Queen Mab, “dra a team of little atomies,” the \ i | 
traces of the smallest site ny etc., says, Hi 
Her chariot is an empty iiaion an i | 
Made by re joiner se a A rrel, i | 
Time out ¢'ntnd the fairies’ coach-maker, 
Andin this state she Goora. night va night 
brains. ream of love 
Romeo and Suliet. 
~ pins oil is extracted from the nut, which is said to be of 
hing and anodyne quality. The liant branches, form 
ctations fishing-rods—their flexible texture renders them 
peculiarly suitable for making crates, etc 
The akspeare compares the figure of a beautiful woman, to 
ts straight and slender branches— 
Kate, like the hazel-twig, 
Is straight and ‘slender, and a siasey! in hue 
As hazel-nuts, and sweeter than the Kernels. 
Taming of the Shrew. 
A branch of the filbert-tree, with which nga was wont to 
drive ag flocks of king Admetus, 127 his nine years’ ser. 
