| Egyptians call Lot 
psa the berries like the myrtle, but purple when 
n ripe, 
t the bigness of an —— 
ee with anh ean it 
As an aquatic, the Lotos isa symbol of the Indian ae Vishnu,* 
he bein, ng @ personi ification of water, or humi dit Br ahma, 
of ity: eo which would not keep prises ten m SATA ” 
also seh th 
nds, Pa ae as 
wa ani particula i in sand 
us berry, ane t the size of 
— the sweet Lr aes The natives, rams gh ape from 
bled 
ry a h 
of in 
e 
Though some have conjectured that the Lotus G Glycycalamus 
of the be eg and that which is mentioned by Homer, is our 
sugar-cane. 
Not prone to ill, nor sited to foreign gues' 
Lani ines eat, ea A drink, os nature gives the feast 
The all their fruit produce 
P irons nectarious juice ; 
ce call’d Loto tphagi) which whoso tastes, 
nsatiate, riots in the swe repasts 
‘ot other home, 
“i i his Pei ae his rien and his Seige ae 
ree we sent, fro 
Jr, the charm tasted, had return’d no more, 
Pope’s Odyssey. 
The ‘definition | of Lotos in the Greek te is this: “A 
t, that foreigne 
forget eee own country—whence t 
a spplie ed to those who pets bay a mb i coantek & to 
8 
There was a neat proverb reset A ne Romans, derived from 
this fruit—it was in two words: “ Lotum gustavit”— Rie ses 
«He has t tasted the Lotus.” It was to those 
rs 
r f 
a ee Ct ea 
g ‘ea cause 
t. , that t strangers, for that c: use, 
used “ght stick to the ca. where it _ and where they fiw 
once it.—See Pliny, 13th, 17th 
In pot Ss, we at a des escription - another species of 
se an aquatic ST —Book 2nd, E 
In speaking of the Egyptians. or ‘die it the pogend 
grounds, he says: oo procure themselves a) means of s 
5 
h = atk mi ee 
, and all 
the Lotos, and is borne on its calyx in ‘the whimsical repre- 
sentation . the renovation of the world. 
n the northern parts of India, the petals of the Loto 
blue, poten as red bee yon whi ie, in the southern provinces, 
the blue flo wer is no The poets have hence 
sian i 
wound ma ade b 
issuing from the 
ashes 
by — ane which ‘ont fous ‘the Ste of the “three eyed 
The uatic Lot pt. 
A ‘ce bon of bis, ties of their deities) cage B fim 
—~ of the Lotos, which b whiley, 
, on its arriv oh in Fee, sro taken, without eestor for 
Clytie changing in ower ; what is meant for the Lotos 
great Oo Helianthus. This error, 
, was imm ediately corrected by th 
nly e 
sy 
nder. on accuracy 0) exceeded his 
vast kn nowledge. ”?._ See Rees’s 's Encyclopedia, 
LOVE _IN-A-MIST. 
NIGELLA DAMASCENA. 
Class 13.—POLYANDRIA 
inn, 
MYLTISILIQU 2. 
Sema 
at. . Juss. 
RANUNCULACSE. 
Nigella, from Niger, black, in allusion to the color of the 
seeds. 
eae are pan cP me —— or fennel-flower, Nigella 
na, or commo 1 flower, Devil ey hinge Love 
in-apuzze, ete is native rot cartels in the South f Eu- 
an pele peas Flowers ene sltary, encompassed 
much like the rest. 8 five, alter- 
3 their claw geo ‘c- ay green, bent 
u , Witha pop purple, flat, bluntly 
two-lobed, ree under lip. Th ety, 
are multipli ut numerous stamens remain to edie ‘thet 
office: leaves us finely cut as ines of fennel, but flat. 
pwa ht gh 
* Vishnu, in Hindoo = atone ee one whats the chief = of the trimurti or 
triad. He is reckoned the sec of this mysterious unity, being a 
5 
<7, 
immense fer nan of the Lily ‘hele, bebe ‘he 
: hay cut down these, they dry them 
in the sun. The ian of the along which me A that of 
the poppy, e into a kind of bread: feeye 
| also, eat the root of ~ pay aie round, of an agreeable 
—— and about th: 
of the Lotos, poten po bg in the ote eid which is not 
unlike @ rose. The nigharr yng h grows from the bottom of the 
is found to contain a number of 
cme of wetter size of an panes which are very grateful, 
SS 
ey ee Pe 
; pclae to Bet, which grows in ive and b the side f 
sem ang's eet = , ‘ 
ificati f th wisdom, sing the ety cue 
- Brahma, haste feat person, iad creative see 8: ne pest, a 
riad, r 
on sai nig future e, fire. 
Pi dans ‘ama, is the Hlindoo god of love; and, vagy = ried William = 
pp Roman Cupid.’ 
W . a ith 
arrow 
a RESIN 
new and beautiful. 
Sir W.J ‘ a4 
is pends = Inscious chigar > and Lobes the aioe 
th fi 
. Thich aang senses, amie saree hearts; 
rs rich in odoro: 
negates 
The Champa, or Champaka, is a polyandria polygynian crn hs = eaeme 
fob vt 
The dmer, is eld by some tobe the Mango ower. 
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