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them up in a moment without exciting suspicion or attention. 

 The innocent theft was made known to the friends of the 

 member, who enjoyed the joke against the niggardly florist, and 

 they by this project, soon spread the young plants over the 

 Parisian gardens. 



The flying savage, wounded turn'd again, 

 Wrcnch'd out the gory dart, and foamed with pain. 

 The trembling boy by flight his safety sought, 

 And now recall'd the lore which Venus taught. 

 But now too late to fly the boar he strove, 

 Who in the groin his tusks impetuous drove: 

 On the discolored grass Adonis lay, 

 The monster trampling on his beauteous prey, 

 Yet dares not Venus with a change surprise 

 And in a flower bid her fall'n hero rise ! 

 Then on the blood sweet nectar she bestows, 

 The scented blood in little bubbles rose; 

 Little as raindrops, which fluttering fly, 

 Borne by the winds along a low'ring sky. 

 Short time ensued, till where the blood was shed 

 A flow'r began to rear its purple head, 

 Such as on Punic apples is reveal'd. 

 Or in the filmy rind but half conceal'd. 

 Still here the fate of lovely forms we see 

 So sudden fades the sweet Anemone. 

 The feeble stems, to stormy blasts a prey, 

 Their sickly beauties droop and pine away, 

 The winds forbid the flow'rs to flourish long, 

 Which owe to winds their name in Grecian song. 



Eusden's Ovid. 



9 



Strawberry. 



The Fragaria Vesca — Strawberry, is in the class Icos- 

 andria, order Polygynia. The generic name is derived from 

 fragra, to smell sweet — given on account of its odor. The 

 characters are : — Calyx, ten cleft. Petals, five ; receptacle of 

 the seeds ovate and like a berry. Specific characters: — 

 creeping by runners. 



The Strawberry, says Lindley, is an herb with three parted 

 leaves, and a pair of large membranous stipules at the base. 



