All your temples stre 
With laurel green, and sacred solahiaiil Gay—Trivia. 
Let mirth abound, let social cheer 
Let blithesome innocence ease 
To crown our jo 
Nor envy, wi’ sarcastic sneer 
Our bliss destroy. 
MOCK ORANGE. 
PHILADELPHUS CORONARIUS. 
Class 12.—1coSANDRIA Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn, Nat. Ord. Ji 
HESPERIDE®. MYRTI. 
iladelphus, the name of a shrub mentioned by Atheneus, 
which it is apostle for us to ascertain. Caspar Bauhin fi 
pe on it to our Syringa, or Mock ee. with which it re- 
mains s the generic appellation. _Linne - it was 
desi ide 3 
kin 
p the plant of A 
nus was of the twining or Sonne nrg 5 that the mney 
by a poetical 2 tae was intended to deplete its teatherly love 
for those 
case ee | 
rsu 
kings— s—formed from ~ "Gr. FRILOS, ane, Ls and ADEL- 
PHOS, brot her r; ie. —on who lov es his brother, or pri 7 
i serveth 
+ L 
lowers of P. 
The ji Corenaries are white, and ire ys like 
those of the ora nge; m righ 
rger, in dense, terminal, upright 
clusters, powerfully scans leaves € elliptica al, re ey oppo- 
site, on short stalks, dark green, smooth, w ith road shallow 
tee th; their flavor, on the pa late, very 
The sweet Syringa yields but in scent 
To the rich orange. Mason. 
MOSS, MUSCUS. 
MOSSES—MUSCI. 
Class 24.—cRYPTOGAMIA. Order.—mvUscr. 
i Nat. Ord. Juss. 
Moss, E.—Sax. meos ; Welsh, mwswg, from mws, that 
shoots 
up, and of a cies scent. Latin, muscus 5 Greek, MOSCHOS } the 
have thought that they have discovered both stamens and 
pistils, en aclo sed ina rou undi sh Bow that pons he th _ 
ing the dark recesses of semieae’ mad the vivid green of their 
diminutive foliage 
The mossy fountains, and the sylvan shades 
Delight no more. Pope, 
While we view 
Amid the noon-tide walk a limpid rill 
ing 
Of cool refreshment; o’er the mossy 
ee not hay surface ae and the waves 
With sweeter music as they flow. Akenside. 
Ye mossy founts, and grass more soft than sleep, 
ho still with boughs Reo ue your coolness e 
Virgil, Ecl. 7. 
Scott’s pers: the md exiled rend nigh her good judg- 
prefe wild freedom and 
no doubt endeared to her by 
many pleasurable associatio! 
“Fair dreams are these,” the maiden cried, 
(Light was her accent, ~ =F sigh’d,) 
Yet is this mossy rock to 
Worth in Pama canopy 
Nor would my footsteps aie more gay 
In pion dance than blithe strai trathspey, 
R 
T 
Nor half 
‘o royal minstrel’s eabanen Lady of the Lake, 
MULLEIN. 
VERBASCUM, 
Class 5, —-PENTANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Ni inn. . Ord. 3 
. SOLANEX. 
the puHiomos of the 
Verbascum, supposed by some to pe 
_ The very same ayplation 8 caer by cori Greeks to the 
two latte WwW 
shoot or 
re eae ; mousse, from which comes = monieine, muslin, 
from its softness semblance to muslin itis 
fh ‘ossoul, a city tamia. 
0: young shoot 
tendril ve; a cao which i is not an i tapecbaie etymology, and 
is adop 
iy 
The older pedaaciats have still more eset in — bad 
nature of a moss, than in the derivation of its name.—. 
Encyel 
Le in the 
organs containing a wae matter, t that dry i en. 
ing; and, ved at maturity, flies 3 off in in th form 
extremely subtile powder, se serving for the propagation of the 
plant. Modern bota 
13 
a rag 
> gage OY 
Ar, 
S 
el a 
the aid of magnifying glasses, 
49 
Malem no Pesaiir of F this English — can be found— 
is also called Torch-weed, High-taper These popular 
names aptly express some of the Colac and uses of the 
me as above alluded to 
us is extensive, and prettily varied. The species 
rall or American. The 
currant, 
yellow, violet, purple, 
Tg andthe more dle ones, 
species display a remarkable degree of irrita- 
‘um, noticed by Mr. Correa de 
thrice, with 
ae 
Se, 
x 
‘i 
pn 8 a 
J 
a 
acts oat 
