Zw 
re AR 
poss i 
writing, from the Teutonic nacht » night, ani 
of night; or, rather, according to the Teutonic mode 
and shade, damage, 
because, 
7 
to wit, it induc ces perpetual night, at least, if libera lly taken. 
The genus Solanum, contains plants of the ne 
shrubby, and tuberous-rooted kinds. Many of them esculen 
as the aces ny ~ Bat tomato, etc 
The Solan igrum, Garde en cemanegper has white apie: 
with aed ranthees} @ eel shaped, tu 
usually 
1. stalke: 
ea 
te 
Le 
ck, 
bla 
~~ vail a pedo at the base; wavy, or coarsely 
the margin. 
Thy baneful root, Solanum 
From dismal dark Tartareazi faede 
ae Rell, 
Garland of Flora. 
fed ianth, five-parted 
Pp ? # “e 
a 
taped of a 2 ait violet colar, longer than the calyx; whan 
rry d d when ripe, of a shin- 
hree 
In the genus Atropa is A, 
Mandragora, native of ine south ~ Europe. ‘og aha re- 
e of some of 
was well as _— surprising virtues as- 
eribed to it, are all pati fabulou: 
Would c kill doth the mandrake’s groan, 
I would invent as bitter, neem 3 hooray. 
As curst, as harsh, and horrible 
And shrieks, like bsperne tape torn vo - sem earth, 
That living mortals hearing th 
ee 
Shaks. 
7, 7. 
it when — wanted a narcotic of the most erate kind,— 
See Johns: 
Come, violent ds ‘ 
Serve for Mandragora, to make me 
Webster's srgaad of Malfy. 
Not poppy, nor Mandragora, 
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the wath 
dp bea ern thee to that sweet sleep, 
Which thou owed’st yesterday. Shaks. Othello. 
Our common ag Phytolacca Decandra, is called the 
American Night-s 
OAK. 
QUERCUS. 
Order.—POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. stig Juss. 
AMENTACE. 
Class 21.—monazcta. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. 
AMENTACEX. 
Quercus, supposed to be derived from the soul quer, fine, 
and cuez,a tree. The oak tree was, also, called in the Celtic 
— hence came the word Druid, or priest of the 
pee RE druid, preferred so wenger sence 
rr ar ‘which tree they held sacred, 
and under which they offered their sacrifices.” (See Pliny 
and others.) go ear ah fire ete 
of thei whom the word was trans- 
ferred ts the yo and ro ‘that these priests called them- 
ag es Druids.”’ 
n “*Henry’s nomen - a gree! we ern the follow- 
mt The name of these famous 
Anglesey, (situ- 
ated off the northe xtremity of Wales,) may be found the 
vestiges of the palace, and other ap ens of the Arch-Druid, 
who made that his residence. And tl hat in some aay of the 
t isl £S land, tk e founda- 
> 
tions of small circular houses, cone of eee only on 
rson hich lhiaa by th 1 f th tr y Druids 
> 
ses, 
he wigs of that — ~ influential set of ~— is 
with that of the Gymnoso- 
e Magi of Persia, the Chal- 
These all have 
Pp 
octrines. To their immediate 
the belie 
was 
Druids, no o doubt, found the wand of superstition, mystery, and 
terror, 
oe pure and — dictates of reason, 
Oak, E. Sax ; Dutch, eik 07 
tree. Itis pro ble ‘chat the first sy cae 
an adjective, =e some ake 
; Danish, eege- 
toe was originally 
as hard, oF ong, a 
Webster. 
The oak corolla, a calyx of one leaf, bell-shaped, 
membraneou about five, smal, cake often cloven, seg- 
ments. The varieties of the — ie Satin oe tant ng i 
of the = wield — we vel ‘outa substance called 
so 
wth, — sh a that o 
with the age of Ai 
The ge ag oak, ee ae S of the trees, 
mee g up, a 
Three bahay po cg 
Ff ecaatbnne in state, and in hives more dec 
ays. 
L. 
P Pollok, makes 
st th » : 3 + 
and ce of life— 
“ And, on the ru 
ri 
rugged mountain-brow e: 
ancie: 
To courage e in distress, exhorted loud.” Course of Time. 
Scott, finds in this tree, an apt illustration of the manner in 
. See 3 +.7 2. 3 + : ££. a oe IT: Pm | 
A more ancient poet t! than either of those, makes it to repre 
& happi- 
a i, eee 
the wagered ef bm famous St. ‘George, 78 who smote the Dragon 
under ng, and then cut off his head,’”) on his return 
