And ye, whose lowlier pride, 
In sweet seclusion seems to shrink — view, 
You of th 
Your blossom, meet to twine the sds aa purest bride. 
Barton 
no longer 
hat Pak Pe i of od vale, 
That lov e ground, and m the esun hire 
Her eae git from the “eebae her sweets. 
Evening’s facts G. F. 
And sweetest to the 
The lily e, the Say whose v.: vivian aon 
aiabink at every breeze, beneath its inet bower. Same. 
Th Sa A It Vil f the va ale 
Whom youth makes so fai ir, and passion so pale, 
That the light of her tremulous bells is seen 
Thro’ their pavilions of tender 
Shelley. 
has been improperly applied to it, as it 
either in its root, fruit, 
its whit e corolla, i“ the 
f lily 
"Flo owers of convalla aria, “monopetal ous, bell- -shaped, six-cle eft, 
nodding, sometimes double, leaves inne nea ribbed, en- 
tire, acute, on long petioles: root pere 
ame of Lily 
has nae ‘the least affinity with the lily, 
or ir Bowers perhaps, fro rom the puri ity of | 
LINDEN TREE. 
TILIA. 
Class 13.—POoLYANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. Nat. ee sige 
COLUMNIFER 2. TIL 
Tilia, an ancient pcg probably derived from the Greek 
PTELEA, the elm. Its popular names are Linden, Lime, or 
Teil-tree. 
Linden En.—Sax. lind. D. linde, the lime-tree, or teil-tree 
or bass-w: 
here are several species of this singularly beautiful 
America, and more that have been described as i ra 
Europe. 
The peculiar t d mode of infl ;. se trees, 
them ished superiority over Pmost others. ah 
floral leaf, of a lor, th 
of the common k green leaf of the tree, with its deliciously 
pen cite 
fib =e sc a still paler shade of gree 
sual degree of interest and admiration in the be holder. 
its delicate Tia ss s more perceptible at night, rg like 
the Jas. 
“It sighs its soul out in the shade.” 
important, for the useful, as well as the piworea mens The 
bark serves for cordage, and, for those very serviceable mats, 
i rime and so 
seasons of Aacgies it is said that gs may be made from 
kad sap— bina — decidedly yield honey, as may be 
chen in of bees that are ever in search of it. 
Two rp ates trees, with walls encompass’d round, 
One, a hard oak, a softer, Linden, one. Dryden. 
a ey aes Id. 
Aslight as leafeon Linde. Chaucer. 
Ks 
BNW 
_ 
J 
Ny eat 
: 
ae See 
, 
LOCUST TREE. 
See note on Acacia.) 
Class 17,—DIADELPHIA, 
wt 
Order.—DECANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss. 
PAPILIONACE, LEGUMINOSE. 
The a gto of the Locust-tree, 
Do im: rth his memory in my breast. Monody. 
That sa species of Honey-locust, eis furnished the 
diet of John Baptist, 3 in n the Le ie am ble conjec- 
ture, tl sect tae as some under- 
s' 
nd it. 
According to Pliny the fruit pa the Ceratonia sili 
thei 
Both this tre Honey-Locust, : tate re; 
Browne—“ A 
nd rem: 
gustless or teeny me pare nine be went denived - the 
Prodigal in his hunger.” 
Sige find Ceratonia siligua, also denominated Carob-tree, or 
t. John’s Bread: the popular belief bey oe “ it furnished a 
part = the food of St. wake in sesh 
is tree, Sir Thomas Bro ark awe tip hard 
beat- 
called by ae Meier ey or 
ods or 
ing against one another: 
dbala. 
Lot Os. 
Class 17.—DIADELPHIA. Order.—DECANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. Nat. Ord, Juss. 
PAPILIONACE. LEGUMINOS. 
Lotos. e which has been more various 
of which: cara more has Ak written 
Liga Those who have sought for its 
lan, , have found nothing nearer than Lo, the Greek for to 
will, or to a alluding. ne, as they sie to the plant being 
greatly e med,— Rees’s ee clope 
It has ten suggested by 0 who ou read this note, that, 
from the Greek verb Lo, t is derived an adjective. whose 
by dropping the ae s in this superlative, for the sa. 
ong ted which the a nts freque ntly di a, we e have ve precisely 
so strained as many of ‘those in which, etymologists often in- 
dulge. is 
Ainsworth derives Lotos and Lotus, from the nymph Lotis, 
Dryope, that she erg Soames plucked a flower from 
the plant into w Lotis) been m 
phosed, was, age 
i eens and fixing here, became 
A wy pat whch Mil srs ber mae 
Pope’s em, 
Luciad, we find a mention of the shrub 
corresponding with the atv of Ord witht ri of in 
dye.” The Lybian Lot shrub 
43 
gc” pac call 
os is there 
