= 
ata 
t Melia 
a the aeriwaed Greek 
Th mology of Melia has been in vain assayed; it must 
Jos, [m cay sie — of the Grecian 
account for 
his very handsome genus is parte principally in in das 
a a mt West Indie 
clim Th f Me lia pring 
nace [Asheleafed East Indian Roo ss i of ik 
is oval, fa = olive] being nearer to that of 
the common cherry. The which ene net me nut is 
isonous; but t ne stice when erl 
Sai ripe, eae 
scale for and on by cattle and ei pei the red- 
treast, without any ill effect. The bark of its roots and branches 
ifuge. 
In ne southern parts of Rarope, the Leevge are threaded for 
beads ist th which pur- 
pose they are aes suited, having a a natural perforation 
through the centre tree has been called Arbor 
; It has also, the 
ee ead-tree, or pr 
s have a reddish lilac hue: they form axillary 
+, ‘pet 
odor. es. thangs leaf, five-toothed ; y cyli 
drical, toothed at its mouth, bearing anthers ie a nut of 
five cells; tet ovate, notched, pointed, bright green above, 
paler bene 
PRIMROSE, EVENING. 
CNOTHERA 
Class 8.—oCTANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. re" meme Juss. 
CALYCANTHEM GRE. 
hera, L., fro e Greek otnos, wine, an ae: 
searching or catching, we m the plant on account of 
£ raed d upo: 
the root having caught the perfume of wine, from be 
The & then & Bie iennis, or tree-primrose, isa Nor th Ameri rican 
three feet high, 
minute tubercles hairy; 
leaves a} 
,» and somewhat ed; flowers sessile in the bosoms of 
e r leaves, so as to form a large 3 of a fine pale 
yellow, delicately fi nt ; expanding in the evening. The 
dible 
pesos ing of | the petals is a0 sudden, as to cause an au 
Bs 
} = 
7 t 
* Bee i egos 
g, until they become 
quite flat ; “biennial. 
You an Primroses, when day has fled. 
Open your pallid flowers, by dew and moonlight fed. 
Barton 
pepe — in many a fold, 
rimrose | 4 weenie her fainter 
firmly clasping zon: 
gold, 
Till yet mild pai i mingles with her ae, Evans. 
a uft of Evening prim 
O’er w the wind may hover till it doz 
O’er which it well | might take a pleasant ak 
But. by the leap 
Of hike hati ripe flowers. Keats. 
sweet-sc 
n othera Odorata, nted, or curl-leafed no 5 
J. 
its waved foliage, and yellow 
perfume. Its flowers expand, also, 
16 
ist a 
lagi 
25 
Me oe 
€ 
Vulgaris. A 
perianth i 
ie tage 
S = 
The em 
Blossoms en to the 
And loves its solitary ray. 
do 
eae the bright day-flow 
An Leeeameid primros ‘9 at 
e, who mark’d with cle aes “4 eres 
way, 
eth, Judgment of Flowers. 
(nothera pense: Dwarf (Enothera, is another North Ameri- 
can species: the smallest of the genus with small compe ses- 
sile, spiked fowers, which Tem ain expanded i n the day well 
as evenin: Posse 
ee leaves sessile, light green, tinged with red at their 
poin gong blun 
The ere re also varieties of purple, pink, ete. | 
Th 1 fe 
calyx; the pet: tals fo our, and generally raat eg gna four- 
cleft; capsule four-celled, four-valved, e seeds, many, 
naked, affixed to a central four-sided rec saree 
PRIMROSE. 
PRIMULA. 
Order.—mMONOGYNIA, 
Nat. Ord. Juss. 
LYSIMACHLE. 
Class 5.—PENTANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord, Linn, 
PRECLE 
Primula, primus, first, a name given to this genus from 
er’ early bloom, being the firs t offering of spring. 
e Cowalip Palpanthos, Primrose, Auricula, ete., are all 
ied faa fam. 
e Primrose was anciently called tgp the name of a 
h, son of Priapus and Flora, who died of grief 
his 
Salieoni.ak parents was 
metamorphosed into this flower, which has since divided the 
favor of the poets, with the violet and the rose 
Primrose, first-born child of Ver, 
ae springtime’ — is 
With her bells dim Beaumont and Fletcher. 
the e ground 
wery dies; the beaten first 
Beneath the sylvan canopy, t 
Glitters with flow 
In mossy dell, return of spring to Gisborne. 
‘ Balfour. 
The primrose, iste of bee da 
Emblem of virtue Jno. Mayne. 
The general character of the flowers - se one — 
is a calyz of one leaf, tubular, with five and five 
upright teeth, acwronygl corolla mo ee tube cn 
ical; limb sp i t half way down into five heart- 
shaped segments. 
PRIVET: 
LIGUSTRUM.. 
Class 2.—DIANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss, 
SEPIARI2. JASMINE. 
Ligustrum, fe d Pliny. d otk Latin w iters, 
by ja i $ origi 
nally to have ane intended, but which is now ; aabversiity 
received for our pri 
The species onieati cultivated is the common privet, I. 
shrub of five or six x feet high; white 
inferior, of one leaf, 
