For, as his own bright image he survey’d, 
He fell in love wi ; 
And o’er the fair resemblance hung unmoy’d 
Nor knew, fond youth! it was himself he lov'd. Same. 
The Poetic Narcissus, N. Poeticus, is the largest of the ge 
3 and known, from all others, by the crimson ane 
its very shallow, aad almost flat, cup of the nectary. 
double variety is most frequent in gardens: seecane ‘hes 
are two flowers in a sbanth. 
narrow-leafed, a i d Nare. 
aps 2 = it is is 
ropor- 
arce alf so 
tion and flatter form, and the edge of the roma more qt 
It flowers in April, full six ks before t ti 
rcissus fair, 
As o’er the Path fountain hanging still. Thomson. 
For him ne  sister-nymphs prepare his 
When, loo g for his corpse, they enly pee 
A rising sabe with yellow blossoms crown’ 
“Addison's Ovid, 
NASTURTIUM. 
TROPOLUM. 
Class 10.—ocTANDRIA. Order,—MONOGYNIA. 
Ord. Linn. at. Ord. Juss. 
TRIMNILATEE GERANIIS AFFINE. 
Tropaolum, the diminutive of Tropeum, a warlike trophy. 
aoe wae, but e — —_ wy chose n by! Linneus for 
e present singular an 
a shielditke leaves ny the > brilliant ‘flowers, , shaped like 
golden 
blood, might very well ju stify —- an allusion. 
Nasturtiu enn that I can find in relation to thi 
Ains sworth ; 
7 *nasitetium, quod nasum onenche 
ose-smart.”’— Varro. 
The name of rants cress, applied to it, is in reference to the 
extaa tte ane of the herbage. It was originally ‘erdaght 
from 
Nasturt r India: th 
monly cultivated wer It was a se awaties of ‘Linne zeus, 
who first observed it to emit et or 
flashes of light, | in the eanysgges a before sun “rise, , dari the 
also 
pert ne beste int ee S$ came on. 
e singular scintilla- 
other or phi so 
is a after twilight, m ight in- 
The « chai tbe t 
duce one to conceive that it and emitted light, like 
Bolognian p horus, or caeined oyster-shells, so well 
A 
he sp 
explained by Mr. B. Wilson, a - 
The light of the evening, a same dista nce from noon, is 
much sendy than the eae of the morni ng. This is is bo 
‘ Se pe, ee th 
aS 
suns hine, , and continue to emit it saat for some time after. 
wards ; posts ot not in such nage as to produce apparent 
scintillatior in this flowe See Darwin’s Notes.] 
e bright a hi Miya" leads — morning sky, 
~~ oe ont bee 
O’er her wo form, ¢ the electri five plays, 
And cold sh amid the mbent ‘Dine; 
Soudan tee tiee 
And gems the went with oom na ay Darwin. 
tit the Nasturtium glows, a! 
o’er its Dusen erat Biblake. 
_— 
from its dark color, or, because it 
5L 
The Tropaolum has a calyx of one leaf, —— yd 
rot acute, colored ponies with a n ‘ 
roundish, inserted tween “oe 
with uae tinged cla : 
Darwin o =, that “the nectary grows from what 
from his circumstance, 0 of its ring the nectary, 
rather oe, esteem ed a @ part of the corotta ac 
and 
e flowers are often intermixed with salad ni a both for 
wered perennial variety of i ae sos 
common in green- etal and readily increased by cuttings. 
NETTLE, 
URTICA. 
Order.—TETRANDRIA. 
se wi Page 
Class 21.—MoNccIA. 
Urtica, derived from Uro, to burn, or ete in epee to the 
property which our common nettles are kno 
Nettle, E.—Sax. netl, n ; Dutch, ne 
from the root of KNIZO, KNAO, to scratch. 
The finely accumulated prickles of the Nettle, if examined 
mble the plese of in- 
aepol cre sietid 
i roscope, will be 0 rese: 
sects, and teeth of adders. seutwithendsaainty their minuteness, 
they are hollow, and convey nous fluid, wi ich stake in 
e, i upon this litt! 
5 aati essential oil, into the wound made by the 
poin 
Nite is ca me to be derived from the Greek verb NuT- 
TEIN, to sting. [See Skinner and Lemon, word net tle.) 
fn ide o’er the throng Urtica flings 
+ barbed shafts, and darts her poison’d stings. Darwin. 
The flowers of this genus have nocorolla. The stamniferous 
a aim te - 7 ££. 32.3, 1, : +. 2 ra 
the petals, a | honey-cup is placed in the centre of the magetoeh 
a“. ‘sometimes seen on distant “ones: ‘they have a cup formed 
which elosing. 
— superior, polished. : 
NIGHT-SHADE. 
SOLANUM AND ATROPA. 
Class 5.—PENTANDBIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss. 
LURID SOLANE? 
“not t be “traced —Rees’s Encyelpeie. 
m, from Sole, t hether h 
the ablative case of Sol, the su or Solee, a 
(founded by Solon, from whom ink nn) fom when 
it may have been origin ght, or where it may are 
oo first observed, 
tropa, from Atropos, the eh Fate, who is supposed to cut 
ax thread of life. <At the deadly Night-shade of Lin- 
nens, and other botanists. 
Solanum @ and Atropa, are of the same class and order, as de- 
ee n the glossary. 
Nigh 
= cnighestode Teutonic, natschade, Solanum; es gue 
produces sleep, the repre- 
oe ae = 
