TULIP-TREE. 
LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA. 
Class 13.—PoLYANDRBIA. Order,—POLYGYNIA. 
Nat. Ord. Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss. 
COADUNATE. MAGNOLIE. 
Liriodendron, from the Greek LIRION, or LEIRION, a lily, and 
DENDRON, a tree; the tulip-tree. The Encyclopedia has it 
Liriodendrum. Nuttall, and other botanists, write it Lirioden- 
TON. 
The ied. te? ne tulip-tree, or yellow poplar, 
ing a small tulip, variegated with pale 
ed orange-satting soli pep sy ~ of the 
e leaves, 
rolla, bell-sh aped, of six peta 
he young bark of this tree is very areca and the re- 
if cut off with scissors at the e 
0 7) e 
pies d for its size and beauty. Botanists fndipite two varieties 
Y ba attention has lately been: awe to this tree by the atanal 
prin nts, which tell us, the root 
reign ait dote to the yenomous bite P snakes. The b 
nd made into a decoction; t whic 
half a pin k every half hour—the wound fre- 
peg Pathed ete the a and the bask applied in the 
for fa pes “se to the par 
Of t tee irom species in China, and one 
in th tai f Amboi 
VENUS’ LOOKING-GLASS. 
CAMPANULA SPECULUM. 
Class 5.-PENTANDRIA. Order.—MONOGYNIA. 
i Nat. Ord. Juss. 
A edeenagere 
La atin, ah a discs 
, a name sgt towed Reape it, as some 
of t s; others, 
The flow 
perianth, superior, five-cleft, i 
orolla. orolla, ™ mono petalou 
discernible. Leaves ‘small, sessile, wre iahity o 
i Root, annual. igs 
corr n-felds i in the south of Europe, common in Engli ish gardens. 
J o ? 
and open, again, with the rays of Aurora. 
VERBENA; or, VERVAIN. 
Class 14.—DIDYNAMIA. Order.—GYMNOSPERMIA. 
t. Ord. Juss. 
VITICIS ET VERBENACE®. 
De Theis derives 6 from = Ce avant to re- 
its supposed medicinal 
rbena wires to seep 0 rc cesta “Th 
Greeks called it the sacred herb—and i with this plant 
alone that they cleansed t me ey stival “tae oe Jupiter, before 
any great solemnity took pla 
th faa was the name of some ev 
Ve rbena, & ergreen 
cme mong shrub, esteemed sacred, and employed in various 
50. monies. 
It was, se one ie Of those plants dedicated to Venus. venus 
the victori with verva 
The Roman am easter, or heralds at Meinec were crowned 
with vervain, when they went to announce war. 
A wreath of vervain heralds wear, 
Amongst our gardens named, 
Being ae the dreadful news to bear, 
Offensive war proclaimed. Drayton. 
rom its een messy — divine oe it was 
= t around the ; and the Ro- 
the gree a ay pipe resent of t 
officinalis, grows wild in England— 
ld und above a quarter of a mile from a house, which 
occasioned its being called simpler’s fous be because it denoted a 
~~ mene of the y traveller. This 
AP 
species is without fragra 
The general EO. ter of tie flower of the Verbena is a calyx 
with five teeth, inferior. Corolla, ee eearieinceincts rather un- 
Ascogd curved ; li mb spreading, cloven way down into 
five, more or or less ss, unequal rounded seg pe 
VIOLET. 
VIOLA. 
Class 5.—PENTANDRIA. Order.— MONOGYNIA, 
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Nat. Ord. Linn. Nat. Ord. Juss. 
CAMPANACE CISTI ET VIOLEX. 
Viola, the common Latin name for Violet, etymology uncer- 
dia 
CESS, 
from tia, a wa 
2, 
g 
< 4 
ed fro eG erb IENAL 
go; poss ay from ‘ts being aa wild o on road-s: ides. 
mee 
ter of ina who was changed by Diana into a Violet, to neg 8 
her from Apollo. And the oe modest blossom still re- 
tains the bashful timidity of the nymph, — concealing 
itself amidst its foliage, from the gaze of Phe 
—_ 
ee Pa 
which eyes 
The s sun but once, and A unreiiiiag dies. H. Smith. 
a fabulous account of the Begone is that it sprung up 
— ty sar ma of the m hosed Jo, daughter 
of in n changed S Japiiet into a beautiful 
white oe 8 pa = wy per order upon bitter herbs. 
“On leaves of trees, and bitter herbs she fed.” 
Dryden’s Ovid. 
The poetry, the romance, the scenery of every country, is 
embroidered with violets. 
Violets dim 
But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes 
It has a scent as ye iad for vibactce cers 
takes us so much trouble to discover) 
first Sate + - 2 ry P 
Barry Cornwall, 
i Sg i a a nea 
a golden viole 
And in that golden ag was set, 
The prize—the golden 
