﻿The leaves turn of a dark red colour in the autumn. The bark 

 of the root is used to make bird-lime, though inferior to Holly for 

 that purpose. The berries are astringent. Evelyn says, a de- 

 coction of the leaves will not only dye the hair black, but will 

 fasten the roots also. — The long, quick growing, tough branches, 

 make excellent bands for faggots ; and, according to Pallas, the 

 young shoots are much esteemed in the Crimea for the tubes of 

 tobacco-pipes. A very minute fungus, probably a species of 

 Erysiphe, is parasitical on the under surface of the leaves of this 

 species, near Bagley Wood, Berks. 



“ The origin of one of the trivial names of this plant, is plea- 

 singly, though fancifully accounted for, by one of Nature’s own 

 Poets, in the following lines.” 



“ THE WAY-FARING TREE. 



“ Way-faring Tree! what ancient claim 

 Hast thou to that right pleasant name? 



Was it that some faint pilgrim came 

 Unhopedly to thee, 



In the brown desert’s weary way 

 ’Mid toil and thirst’s consuming sway. 



And there, as ’neath thy shade he lay, 



Bless’d the Way-faring Tree ? 



" Or is it that, thou lov’st to show 

 Thy coronals of fragrant snow, 



Like life’s spontaneous joys that flow 

 In paths by thousands beat ? 



AVhate’er it be. I love it well ; 



A name, methinks, that surely fell 

 From poet, in some evening dell. 



Wandering with fancies sweet. 



“ A name given in those olden days, 



When, ’mid the wild-wood’s vernal sprays. 



The merle and mavis pour’d their lays 

 In the lone listener's ear, 



Like songs of an enchanted land. 



Sung sweetly to some fairy band, 



Listening with doff’d helms in each hand. 



In some green hollow near.” — W. Howjtt. 



The Natural Order Caprifolia'cea: is composed of dicoty- 

 ledonous shrubs or herbaceous plants, with opposite, rarely alternate 

 leaves, without stipuke. The flowers are usually cymose, some- 

 times corymbose, or umbellate, often sweet scented. The calyx is 

 superior, monosepalous, adherent by its lower part to the ovary, 

 generally with 2 or more bractece at its base, entire or lobed. The 

 corolla is superior, monopetalous or polypetalous, wheel-shaped or 

 tubular, regular or irregular. The stamens are equal in number 

 to the lobes of the corolla, and alternate with them, (see plate 122, 

 f. 4.) The ovarium has from 1 to 5 cells, one of which is often 

 monospermous (1 -seeded), the others polyspermous (many-seeded); 

 in the former the ovulum is pendulous. The style is simple, and 

 terminated by 1 or 3 stigmas. The fruit is indehiscent, of 1 or 

 more cells, either dry, fleshy, or succulent, and crowned by the 

 permanent lobes of the calyx. The seeds are either solitary and 

 pendulous, or numerous and attached to the axis. The testa is often 

 bony ; the embryo is straight at the top of the fleshy albumen ; and 

 the radical is superior. See Lind. Syn. and Rich, by Macgilliv. 



