Let dimpled mirth his temples twine, 
With tendrils of the laughing vine 
The graceful beauty of the Tendril of ag vine, is often pic- 
turedin poesy. Inthe following lines from an old ballad, called 
n mand wate ” they prettily tiaarese the waving curls 
of a lady’s tre 
Her raven hair plays a her neck, 
Like Le de ed the v 
Her chee hoi val rose-buds deck, 
Her pan ‘avs diamonds shine, eee Reliques. 
According to Plu tarch, the Grape Vine sprang from 
in ba dra e 
308 to be the blood of the gi : hey offer it in 
libations, thinking it anions po the gods. 
e Beloe’s nue Euterpe. 
r 
nt, rages 
under, their ir audacious crime ; 
lightning play’d peered the firmament, 
And their demolis h’d works be ) pieci s rent. 
inge 1 with the bolts transfix’d, 
With native earth, their blood the monsters mixt. 
Blame" n’s Ovid. 
The Vitis aad or comm pe vine, is found n 
ost pa: ra 
, and with a fragrance resembling that 
find great refreshment in this eager och of 
nature, which is not yielded witha s sparing h and, but bo 
fully bestowed upon all who will ive it. 
Uncultur’d, punta and unguided bed art. 
The sweet blossom’d wild grape is found; 
As charity springs psi the untutor’d heart, 
Embracing all objects around. B. L. Lear. 
GRASS. 
GRAMEN, OR GRAMINA. 
Class 3.—TRIANDRIA. Order.—DIGYNI1A. 
Nat. Ord. Linn, 
MON@GECIUS, ete. 
The Latin ey gramen is su 
iens, eedii 
; ing roots, 
arked that “ Grasses are the most general of 
i‘ from the Greek xrastrs, definition 
bcsg nding L. hay a — ence (Says Schrevelius) the Engl ‘English 
TIs, is also = a theme, 
compound 
d not a deri 
he sam: davrndl Gita aun defines 
erent) deriving it from e@rao (Gr.) because it is 
ae role es Gr.) is defined to eat, and is ee ip erie: 
GRaSO, EGRASA—“ whence, perhaps the English to e, to 
on herbs.” 
feed on 
The creeping roots of grasses, or gramina, are mostly fibrous, 
rarely tuberous, or bulbous. They consist of numerous joints 
w stem, 
a cattle, the more bys mu anit. 
- grow i 
lants, b 
perfecting cee vie that cattle | ase readil? attaok them in 
that 
dite ues ae bape, which, in moist situations, emit fe 
brous roots alone, for 
a whereby a reservoir of nutriment is sec cured a; again: ‘athe 
currence of an irregular supply of the juices for its ya 
ce. 
ituati have 
? 
» most ma- 
ee 5 
ely in conformity i urishm ent. 
pte del a - vate sofas peo of at 
ded the rye, ba splat wheat, oat,etc. They a 
vs heir i tapering leaves—their eylindri 
t) w stems, blpeanebi are jointed, or separated into die 
tinct ptirtions by. knet 
Jint grasses, but the former 
m the latter, some ne n the ae size of thet ir seeds, 
vies — e the basis of our aliment, as the smallest of the 
s-seed 
the 
$ nourish small birds. 
Aa +h ai 
The 
the place besieged, was giv yen by common consent t of the sol- 
diers, to sation rals who had delivered a Roman army ~ ieged 
by the me nd obliged him to decamp. It was called 
Corona nie obsidionalis. 
About his temples grass they tie, 
Himself that so behaved, 
In some strong ops a the enemy 
A city that had sa Drayton. 
In Herodotus, we find G ubmis. 
** Amongst the — nations of the w est, ‘to show that they 
lvyes overcome, or that they su rrendered at 
it to the 
still observed this custom.’’ (See note to 4 Book, Melpome ne.) 
HARE-BELL. 
HYACINTHUS NON-SCRIPTUS. 
Class 6.—HEXANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
r at. . Juss, 
ASPHODELI. 
£ +3 + 1 
Hya 
specific Avtar a pr notice of this 
a 
At th , this flower of the copse 
and dell was left i in its native ‘wilds—but both et — —, 
pen of Seo, has made the emblem of one of his most i 
esting heroines the Lake, > The lovely Ellen, 
speaking of “her father, and the noble manner in which he 
rt—and endeavoring to soot 
sombre apprehensions of the ancient household minstrel— 
ibaa aim ide his rpc deep and melancholy forebod- 
ings of pending evil 
Small ground is now ache mel 
