forum 
aa development of the leaves (as indie 
from 
Copious of flowers, the woodbine pale and wan, 
But well compensating her sickly looks 
With never cloying odors, early aes late. Cowper. 
oneysuckle, (falsely so called) or Azalea, is a 
cmatie 6 aarp of Fee es North America: to be 
found, also, in st Indie: 
Azalea, i is derived fro the Greek azaxros, dry, from its 
suckle e, or ian at is mu 
Some of the species are delight: a fragrant. Natural order 
Bicornes, Linn., Rhododendra, Jus: 
Modern botanists denominate Aaa s Pentandrous section 
‘odendre: e Am 
as the Pontic Azalea, ca a deck d 
candrous, or true Rhododendrons have sempervirent foliage, 
Azaleas, are generally highly fragrant. 2 
The Azalea, each rgpe nly sonny 4 woods, 
drys 
Ppteng agers the middle s of N. Americ sla ag R. Ni ‘di 
Flowering in sap the blossoms sppeting peeve the 
presenti: v' 
uaa ip often with a e of a in the deeper 
colored ce the larger upper segments of the a Sug 
the touhern states, this species occasionally occu 
fect scarlet, and is closely allied to the "Asiatic or Siow Pontic 
The R. Calendulaceum, of the southern states, is also appa- 
ind. 
rently a mere variety of the Pontic ki 
he swam suckle, Azalea viscosa, (or mo! 1 
R. ronsege: Se 8 rs almost entirely white, extremely 
ac do ap) ie, 
after the ane sive: raul) ied. 
Os 
HUMULUS. 
Class 2.—pIoEcrA. Order.—PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn, Nat. Ord. Juss. 
SCABRIDE, URTICE. 
by Linneus, from Aumus, moist earth, 
— = s the Lagrgls in n gestion prefers. 
1, but of this, there 
are aur varie arieties. 
he lative —, (from Lupus, a wolf, oad was 
probably ae to it, 7 
hausting the cond h it grew, so that ae hela 
plants could not have even-handed justice dealt out to ce 
the ravenous appetite of Lupulus devastating all th 
within its influsnce, 
sudden bound or or Tap i appears to aay ig a fy fom 
such vigorous and rapid vegetati 
Be the base 9 the calyx of the ie priate there may be 
a coating sparent ye ot ogres, soln bia in 
warm water, , and to which the e Hop ow all its bitterness, 
puline,and is used 
in medicine as a tonic. 
I cannot dismiss this really handsome and useful plant, with- 
—s seen its favor. Peckaed; like others, who have had 
ignorance. 
its head aloft, ir avigionn sectoada; wad demand a hearing, 
_ before it be made to suffer an unjust condemnation. 
HOUSTONIA. 
Class 4.—TETRANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA 
Nat. — Linn. at. nna Juss. 
STELLATE. RUBIACER. 
Named oe Linneus after Dr. William eadik F.R.S., 
resident for several years in the West Indies. He visited the 
oe Main, from whence he sent various seeds to Europe, 
betw — e years 1728 and 1732. Some engravings of saci 
vid n hand, , were purchased by. Sir Jos enh. 5 Banks, 
rh, he rey ftha + 
ives of North 
» H. Purpur ates ; a genus of 
America—as the H. 
pretty little delicate plants that cover our fields in 
spring, th m nt pale blue, or alm ite 
ers, ig jasmine like, je scentless ; pro- 
a slender, 
= ek 
deep, roundish or elliptical main segments. Tae from 
nsplanted to the European green-houses; but with us it is 
so common and so abundant, that it is left i in quiet pocenenion. 
its native fields, where it 
“its four-cleft aS ec forms a Maltese CTOSS,. and its prota! an- 
cid 
of gold e, in phate 
How often, modest 
I mark thy tender miaieate — Ay spread, 
— the turfy slope, their s ~~. 
ung heavy with the show 
Sweet flower, thou tell’st how hearts 
As pure and tender as thy leaf—as low 
ill sure 
The joy that peace imparts. Percival. 
lar names of — onia, are Dwarf-Pink, Bluets, 
Am n Daisy, (a aithoag h it has 
ical cheticteeaies of the Bellis,) pis its 
humble pani. its s simple e-bean uty, an and gene. eral diffus sion over 
fie] as does the 
European pesca ts own a and like it, an endeared 
little flower, and sitiiccad te 
HYACINTH, 
HYACINTHUS. 
Class 6.—HEXANDRIA. Order .—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Juss. 
ASPHODELI, 
Hyacinthus, a name adopted from the ancient Greeks, who 
inthus, son of Amyclas, founder of rahe city of ae cle, 
ite both Apollo and Zephyru 
of the young Hyacinthus ee) deprive 
was afterwards changed by Apollo into a flower bearing 
name, 
