“ Tb one fla ccid. 
as to single ate, the noon-tide 
eat Encyel. 
come, asw8lia 
enus, seem te wel 
sun, folding themselves up a 
it withdraws.—. neye 
_ rhe “Mes esembrye: anthemum Crystattinum, or ice plant, is a well 
Thi s appearance is caused 
by innumerable alittle dilatations in Mt ge a , filled with a 
mpid juice: to the e whole herb is and remark- 
ts es yates wily on os pec bearing 
ate, waved, pa- 
ey ae rie 
alterna ov 
pillary ; ‘flowers: nearly sessile, ee of a pale. rose-color ; 
i dark purple. 
So, with pellu t 
Her rimy folia: are , and her andied sco 
~ fro _ his e glansy’ ‘hors, and pear ly mat 
dy ves: 
Mounts with , enamel’d wings the vesper gale, 
And wheeling shines in adamantine mail. 
Darwin’s Loves of the Plants. 
Coe 3.—TRIANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA, 
d. Linn. 
TE 
d 1 fr rom the various, ae somewhat concentric 
ower, which give an of the rainbow. The 
modern Greeks call it KRINON, y—the French Lis or 
Fleur-d 
bers 
e-lis. 
re, also, told that the ancients named this plant after 
nger = the go ‘ods, and more particularly of Juno 
She nm o ariegated with all the beauti- 
ful colors of the e rainbow, sitting behind her mistress, ready to 
“The various Iris Juno sends with haste.”” Ovid. 
1 o4a + 
She is lik ised 
to deluge the world. 
clad in colors of a various arts 
Faiagtiets Tris breeds a new supply 
To feed the clouds. Dryden’s Ovid. 
1 f£ the fib berous, an 
rooted, towers, vherbaceons ee nial sine Bris 
yx, & Spathe of two valves, 
tin: nt. Coro rota, § in six deep seg- 
ments, united io a tube by t their narrow base; ane 
outermost reflected, the three inner, erect, and most acute. 
Nor Iris, with her glorious rainbow clothed, 
So fulgent, as the cheerful gardens shine, 
With their bright offspring, when they’re in syed bloom, 
Colume 
lla. 
e genu 
Ps 
& 
The claims connection with the lilies, and often passe: 
under whet —— — botanical laws. tee ao 
Iris of ~~: is ost fi 
§¢ ins san teat the end = the lower petal is purple, 
with white ye nd orange-streaks, creepin i as it were, into 
the ‘mouth of the ane er, like an ers by which deception, 
, it probably prevents a similar insect from 
plundering it of its honey ; the edges i Ley lower petal lap 
of ts it sgn athe 
France, w 
the Iris Platine for his blazon. 
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It was, s heaee: grit alled Pleur-de 
3 
Louis, eves bat tv and afterwards contracted to Fleur-ds- 
— Fleur-de-lis, or lily flower, although it 
lily. 
The number of ‘Fleurtotts, used in emblazoning the arms 
of France, were uced to three, in the reign of Charles the 
6th, about the year 1 
ae ee 
HEDERA. 
Class. 5.—PENTANDRIA, 
Nat. Ord. Linn. 
HEDERACEX. CAPRIFOLIA. 
Ivy, E.—Saxon, ifig ; me epheu ; a parasitic plant 
— Heder a.— Webster. 
He. ae nad Hadus, 
ki t was given to goats a the ancients.* oo are 
also told or itis called in the Greek Kissos, from Cis. 
favorite of Bacc hus blage< poets fa ble to hay re been ean: 
ee ee 
—MONOGYNIA, 
t of the 
who is Sead crowned with vine, and ivy leaves. In 
Egypt it was ee to Osiris, which some say is another 
name for Bacchu 
a Ivy for may the crown of the Roman poets. In modern 
mes, woman’s love, constancy, dependence, ete. have been 
expres y it 
aoe era helizr, common European ivy, is that so cele- 
secies upon old build in meg te 
poet it attaches itself by short — 
has a a 
with w hit 
Peta five rants 
globular, black, mealy w 
And wild roses, and Ivy serpentin 
With its dark buds aiid leaves crane seale 
And flowers azure, black and ame with ah * 
Fairer than any wakened eyes old. Shelley. 
A jolly 
Verse, crown’d with ivy and ho ily, 
hearth. 
ick.—Hone’s every day Book. 
JASMINE, WHITE. 
JASMINUM OFFICINALE. 
Class 2.—DIANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. ee ede . Juss. 
oe EX. 
ra . £ . 
vitaiaes sina to the sweet scent of the flow 
Peg ere m, a genus containing plants of the Posie 
deciduous, and ———, shrubby kinds: i double, 
with preemie of white, ow flowers. Ourcomm' 
Jasmine, cua ae. see. Sagal gaa 
Jasm me like silver spray, 
Some ‘Tike pel in the morning ray; 
Fragrant stars, and favorites they. 
Indian Bride.—Garland of Flora, 
The image of love, that nightly flies 
ee ta the 
of the great poate: of that animal to destroy the Vine 
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