And luxuriant above all 
The jasmine, throw ing 
The e deep da dark green ‘of ‘whose unvarnished leaf 
and illumines care 
The bright profusion of her scatter’d s 
Cowper. 
The jasmine, with which the queen of flowers, 
To charm her God, adorns his favorite bowers ; 
Which brides, by the = hand of neatness drest, 
Unenvied rival! w Churchill. 
nferior. 
ebul, 2 take its ‘margin five-toothed, and erect. Corolla 
me petal, salver-shaped ; its segments from five to eight. 
JASMINE, CAROLINA YELLOW. 
GELSEMIUM NITIDUM. 
Class 5.—PENTANDRIA. Order.—DIGYNIA. 
ve i Nat. Ord. Juss 
Gelsemium, is a corruption of hmepienmcg which is derived 
from the Italian Gelsomino, Jasm cies Re name niti- 
dum im (L. ) signifies smooth, bright, delicate, » elegant etc. 
Ss C ar olir 3 
grows n aturally an most luxu riantly ve sre southern sents, 
spreading over the © hedges, and in grace! estoons over the 
ing the air toa great salient with its deli- 
cordi e Gelsemium nitidum, is w spe- 
cies, formed from the meee mia of sagopa aching found 
— the head of Bignonia, in Rees’s Encyclopedia. 
JONQUIL. 
Rush-leayed, or Common Jonquil. 
NARCISSUS JONQUILLA. 
Class 6.—HEXANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord Li Nat. Ord. Juss. 
SPATHACE. NARCISSI. 
arcissus, see note on that Flower.) 
Jonquil, E.—Fr. Jonquille ei me tatocac giunco ; L. Juncus. ts 
a rush, and It. giglio, a ily. ealled the rush- 
daffodil.— Webster 
The Jonquil is distinguished from ~~ Saga — of igh 
cissus, by its rush-like foli aoe and he 
from j 
call it “the rush Bea an 
i, is a ree gh tp paml cul- 
tivated in a single ming ty em y for © sake of its ri ich 
and 
narrow rush-like ae at once ag ears it from the other 
ery short and crenate, or 
ical, spreading widely their sides 
mat dyece, or bent downaris The number of flowers 
and they droop, in some degree, though 
nodding Jonquil or N. nutans. 
: ee eee en Sees Behe 
JUDAS TREE. 
CERCIS,. 
Class 5.—DECANDRIA. Order.—MONOGY NIA, 
Ord, Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss. 
LOMENTACE LEGUMINOS 2. 
Cercis, L. the KERKIs of Kegs agent ae pein (Gr.] is 
defined | a shuttle, sad is from KREK 
. The. c. siliquastrum, an pore ie cans grows to 
enty feet. The tr unk, , upright, with 
The fw ers, red, or a t 
eg before mn Tes es, in alternate 
and sometimes on the stem of the 
caine to birds, particularly the spar- 
poignancy, they are used 
The leaves, 
surface unde er, greyish— 
ray veined ‘with Rav ck and 
a dark brow n bar k. 
¥ 
deciduo T ood 
<p be receives a fine polis a 
urope. 
, Signifies, biti tast 
Our Pee rican specie: 30. =_— — Se hinadiad Red- 
ene —" oy S pesonil ng, i e leaves of both 
ooth. It is abundant Seneeaar the United States. 
a eae name, might readily 
see so forcibly to mind that 
Dark traitor in Messiah’s holy camp! 
Leper i in saintly ger! Assassin masked 
In virtue’s robe! ypocrit t Pollok. 
ot drunk the wine of God’s eternal wrath, but 
for his unbelieving heart. 
JUSTICLA: 
Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Juss. 
ACANTHI. 
Class 2.—DIANDRIA. 
So named, by Houston, in ee fee his countrym 
James poset Esq. F. R. S., a great lov 8 nap catees ae 
gardening and Fase Some works of his e been pub- 
subjec genus, was 
sociation Age a more puateubaetes name— 
being pardcally — 
he Justicia lat 
houses, has a A she of ‘the 1 most Saeeaes o azure-bl ee v 
color among flowers,) not less pure, calm, bright and refresh 
ing to the eye, than the heavens, when viewed from the 
mit oe a lofty mountain, not a c — interveni mabe 
olia, a to he fi 
e most admi red, are J. Coccinea ; ; with aah flowers of a 
rich eeprirgh a native OF rea taser J. Ni tida, flowers + dati 
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