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THE FLOEAL WOELD AND GAEDEN GUIDE. 
garden rockery, and one of the best known of garden plants. The 
Woodsorrel, Ox&lis acetosclla , haunts shady places, where it may be 
quickly found by its beautiful tufts of delicate thrice-divided leaves, 
like spiritual clover leaves, and delicate white flowers, which are 
marked with fine pencil-like lines. Lastly, to complete the May 
garland, bear in mind to hunt the woods well for the Herb Paris, 
Paris quadrifolia, a most elegant and peculiar plant, allied to the 
Srnilax, which you may as easily determine when you find it by the 
aid of the subjoined figure, as by the most elaborate description. 
“ The honeysuckle round the porch has woven its wavy bowers, 
And by the meadow-trenches blow the faint sweet cuckoo-flowers, 
And the wild marsh-marigold shines like fire in the swamps and hollows prey ; 
And I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May.” 
Teknison. 
SOLLYA. 
WO varieties of this genus — viz., heterophylla and 
linearis — although not deserving to be classed amongst 
the most showy inmates of our plant-houses, are never- 
theless worthy of a place in even limited collections. 
They are exceedingly easy to manage, soon form large 
specimens, and produce their pretty blue flowers long and pro- 
fusely during the summer months, when a variety of specimens 
of hard-wooded plants is much wanted. Cuttings of short-jointed 
bits of the young wood in a half-ripe state, if planted in light 
