FA PAD 
purple, or violet, sorrow on the one side, and en wa as other, 
as being a mixture of black and blue. Kings a ardinals 
always mourn in purple. 
n China, it is white: 
A 
n ladies mo ory white ; 
st time it was u 
cess was beheaded, [the 19th May of the same ~ 
ascension da mourning w 
In Egypt, yellow is the mourning color. gran trie ite death 
is the end of hum: n hopes; as leaves ‘when they fall, and 
y fade, become yellow. 
In Ethiopia, brown, the <— of oanca’ denotes the 
earth, whither the dead re 
The me rani of the seaaiell 2 nthus was kept alive by 
annual solem Hyacinthie, celebrated at Amycle 
in Laconia, which lasted t ays. The first day was de- 
voted to mourning for Sasson; the other two were = 
in games and festivals in hon Apollo, and in allus 
the fabulous origin of this fay sate flower, by the d sar 9 Fes 
youth, while Apollo was engaged in one of these gam 
#. +P 
Nor are the Spartans. 
For pi mph of their slabrad- 
But still with pompous woe. 
h 
m’d; 
aad solemn state. 
The hyacinthian feasts they aiety celebrate 
zil?s Ovid. 
The English hyacinth, non scriptus, igang di called nare- 
bell, from the bell-s shape of its flowers, and from its bein, ng 
is of a clear hoon occas ionally seen with a pu re white corolla. 
reely less celebrated | tha an the Pay ne hyacin th. 
— 
fairest fi 
The azure harebell, like thy veins 
In the lone copse, or shady dell 
Wild cluster’d knots of harebells blow. Char. Smith. 
The harebell, for her stainless azured hue, 
Claims to, be worn by none but those are tes: 
W. Browne. 
aera Wn aca ana ad 
hair on bald, and beardless 
The cottage c children call st St Sell 
Blue i how gayly art thou drest, 
How fresh to flaunt pitta ee Mrs. Robertson. 
Gerard calls this plant blue harebell, or ge oa oe 
_— is evidently from t the French Jacinthe. 
yee con the etal, and, ‘therefore, could not be the pessoas 
Poeticus.—. F. Historica. 
is, has numerous varieties. 
HYDRANGER; or, CHINESE GUELDER ROSE 
HYDRANGEA HORTENSIS. 
Class 10.—DECANDRIA Order,—DIGYNIA. 
Hydrangea, L. from the Greek upoR, water, ', and AGGEION, a 
The specitic name Hortensis, L. pertaining to, or growing in 
iti 
sepa from be, it was introduced into xe sheng jo Sir 
Joseph Banks, in 
Bh is plant is nearly. allied to Viburnum and Sambucu 
T itsi 
he rose-colored 
riety, that had heen planted i in the soil of the neath common, 
mixed witha ae 
owner of this plan 
for it, Fenn! Tnwiling to part with a tee that had | hee 
reared by she had lost; but she gladly si uk. 
fro. te ‘all 0 which D sine duced flowers ais oo original 
i oil 
ars d with ma arsh. mi: s has 
nnapolis, yor Back riv er. 
bl a boas 
r 
mbl 
showy, w Fes anes follo 
Flowers i appeeny , terminal, 
odoro 
five pet Be s ea, a anger than the — which is he 
superior, five elliptical 
th, 
hed, whi tish. Stems 
niga: leafy, green, snetikind with dark purple spots, Swen. 
t the top. 
ICN PoARNT: 
MESEMBRYANTHEMUM CRYSTALLINUM. 
Class 12.—1cosANDRIA Order.—-PENTAGYNIA, 
at. inn. at Ord. Juss. 
SUCCULENT. . 
um is a vast genus of ipieste plants, for- 
3, fro fini hi 
i 
its flow 
is true of m s 
therefore, ws aberog one letter i in se a ee had re- 
- pe 7f 
the sermon) is in the middle of the flower. He oberon that 
is is perforated, as it were, by the latter; whilst it so Soke 
= all peapst is aba of . ann in Rees’s Racyclopedin, is, that a Soutivess 
wa 
he Jamies Dillentus, one of these moat celebrated ee of A cote 
and their 
at Da spprawasis in loge ios In 1721, h 
who, afterwards, en- 
rship of sport nany at Oxford—giving, for this purpose, th 
is Professor: ship Srhedhrsswst ato 8 a 
Dill 
in honor of him: “because” (to use Linnzeus’* own se ~ . io of all pants 
th t disti hed fe beauty of its hoi and fruit, like 
