The ower: of ni genus have | a calye barotan fiv are 
l ry 
corolla fun han 
beneath it 
pa paused strrounding the germen. Plant p 
ral sp 
MEADOW SAFFRON 
COLCHICUM AUTUMNALE. 
Class 6.—HEXANDRIA. Order.—TRIGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss. 
SPATHACE. COLCHICACE. 
Ned from Colchis, where it is 
Colchicum. d t 
said to grow ‘in great ee 
origin to some drops being opt in the fells, of the magic 
iquor, which Medea tf son to 
the bloom and vigor of youth ; and, on this account, the Col- 
of maladies. 
called Cole. sh 
is infirm 
“Iti is , suggested, also, that, as Medea is sometimes 
it was the Colchicum that relieved son from 
The ne juices, now, | 
eath, where'e ge quar fell, 
yernal grass, all the pri ride 
Of blooming May. si Stonestreet’s Ovid. 
—_ os ee bright 
In such a 
iin dathaee the enchanted earl 
That did renew old so 
when 
rom plunder Colchis arity the golden fleece ; 
in gi 
ZE: 
etch his sealing limbs ; 
his thrid nery es wi, eres arg dart. 
ish 
So w 
Fro 
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I 
I 
A 
7 
An 
pont lan rf the Plants. 
tarding the 
m immersion »sotening the skin 
e finer vessels whi ch te: te in i it, 
and by restor ring their irritability or 
ing their collapse, and the induration so evident in sedioes 
ee 
adow Saffron.—Saffron, E.; Welsh, safrwn, safyr; Fr. 
safron : igi: safri — Turkish, fran, to be yellow, to be 
ot of cipher.— Webst 
hicum is bulbous, ails as large as the tulip, 
poiso es a par ages corolla 
esigned ffi 
progress of old age. A war 
ities of 
ven Pr 
ediately from the roo 
e, reddish, and Salaeaet with saa spots: natives ofl ru 
rwin remarks of the c. Autumaale, or Meadow esomeiepe 
constitute a a part of {the flower. These si. singular ! flowers appear 
in the mn, without any leaves ; _whence in some coun- 
1: the 
tries. ch ng, t 
pony hares spring UP; nat, in er. the pede eu 
from the groun the usual 
habits of vegetables, which oes in tha spring, and ripen 
“To the scientific botanist, ge Lane is —— interesting 
—reversing the seed vd the mie as it were, ce 
de vit ‘its security, 
make up for all ‘pparent "deficiencies. The seed-vesse, which 
or just 
sree ih the pe hens root. The tube of the < aenen 
Bein 
a Th 
so in this, — an cbngeion unknown to any other apr ‘As 
the nse of the seeds, before the access of winter, this abie 
po e is e clgrrey _ a depth in the earth removed 
In the spri ring | the ‘germs, a attach- 
ache rown up, and, 
from a usual 
f mae Papen, 
of the summer's sun, ore sown ‘upon the surface of the earth. 
ering of the Colchicum; of these —s a is a ee last that _ 
pi ne its = and the first to loo —See Darwin’ 
bce bright from earth, rommterd the bare sky, 
ends fair Colchicum, w: 
ain noe Uae sreetanieag bee sae ee 
And lights, with beauty’s blaze, the dusky sphere. 
Darwi' 
MIGNONETTE. 
RESEDA ODORATA. 
Order.—TRIGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Juss. 
CAPPARIDES. 
Class 11.—DODECANDRIA. 
t. Ord. Linn. 
MISCELLANE. 
_ Reseda, a name which occurs in sige ee ” evidently de- 
Pliny reports, that this herb i is ; known in 
“ Rimini, sone was used for dispersing tumors, and 
f inflammatio 
where it is asaene) tpn Little eatiee. a, calls it 
" Frenchm: 
nonette is mah be derived from the Italian mi, and 
The Reseda 
a hardy angua 
tered, Its 
the v ine-blossom, 0 or fruit 
1; segments all very deep, of 
ht red anthers; calyr equal to 
inferion of one ‘ver deeply divided; Jezves flat, 
three-lobed. 
ve 
al, blooming 5 all th e year 
y fragran’ 
of th e ras pepe The pe 
a pale buff colo:, pret 
to the corolla. 
gorgeous flowers the — reseda grace, 
ae sip, with eager trun k, y a bus msy race, 
9 simple cup, ni gg 
at beams in Fritillaria’ s diadem. 
MIMOSA; or, SENSITIVE PLANT. 
Class rte aang 
. Ord. Linn. 
LOMENTACEZ. 
Nat ee pay 
LEGUMINOS. 
From imus, 4 
pose! of animal 
The plants of this fora naturally contract themselves in 
the evening, and with the morning’s light. (See 
“Structure of Plants,” upon the effect of light upon leaves, 
page 7.) 
Whence does it happen that the plant, nee well 
We name the sensitive, should moy e and fee’ 
And, with quick horror, fly the neighboring hand?’ Prior. 
