T jOCai.it i fs. — In dilclies and ponds, on a gravelly soil. — Xot nnfreqn ent in 
many counties of England ; also in Wales. — It lias not been found in Scotland ; 
and it is rare in lieland: Mr. Mackay informs us, in his excellent Flora 
Hibernica, that it was first found in that country about the year 1818, in ditches 
or drains near Downpatrick, by l)r. Kennedy, then a young and promising 
Botanist, who died shortly afterwards. 
Perennial. — Flowers in May and June. 
Root creeping, sending out many white slender fibres, which 
strike deep into the mud. Stems trailing, round, leafy. Leaves 
all under water, numerous, crowded, smooth, 3 or 4 inches lonjr, 
bright green, deeply and regularly pinnatifid, with strap-shaped 
segments. Stalks central, solitary ; naked below, rising above the 
water, and bearing several whorls of flowers one above the other, 
and forming, altogether, a handsome spike. Flowers large and 
handsome, of an elegant pink or deep rose-colour, with a yellow 
centre ; from six to ten in a whorl, each on a slender partial-stalk, 
which bends downwards when the flowers are over. Bractcas 
strap-shaped, one at the base of each partial-stalk. Both the 
general and partial stalks, as well as the bracteas and calyx, are 
covered with a glandular vicid pubescence. Sometimes the flowers 
have six stamens, and then the calyx and corolla are each divided 
into six segments. A variety with a red flower was found near 
Kelmarsh, in Northamptonshire, by Mr. Rudge. 
The Hottonia is one of the most beautiful of our native plants, and is highly 
deserving a place with Nymphaa (t. 181), Nuphar (t. 281.), Butomus {i. 34.), 
Sagittaria (t. 109.), Villarsia (t. 161.), and Menyanthes (t . 245), in the orna- 
mental Aquarium. The flowers are numerous, and very elegant, and are pro- 
duced in whorled clusters, raised above the water. The leaves are all under 
water, and afford a refuge, and perhaps nourishment, to the fresh- water Peri- 
winkle and other small shell-fish. 
THE SUMMER’S CALL. 
“ Come away ! the sunny hours 
Woo thee far to founts and bowers ! 
O’er the very waters now. 
In their play. 
Flowers are shedding beauty’s glow — 
Come away ! 
Where the lily’s tender gleam 
Quivers on the glancing stream — 
Come away ! 
All the air is filled with sound, 
Soft, and sultry, and profound ; 
Murmurs through the shadowy grass 
Lightly stray ; 
Faint winds whisper as they pass — 
Come away ; 
Where the bee’s deep music swells 
From the trembling foxglove bells — 
Come away ! 
Jn the deep heart of the rose 
Now the crimson love-hue glows ; 
Now the glow-worm’s lamp by night 
Sheds a ray, 
Dreamy, starry, greenly bright — 
Come away I 
Where the fairy cup-moss lies. 
With the wild- wood strawberries, 
Come away 1 
Mas. Hemans. 
