LAVATERA TRI LOBA. 
THREE-LOBED LAVATERA. 
Class. Order. 
MONADELPHIA. POLYANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
MALVACEAE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Spain. 
4 feet. 
July, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1759. 
No. 437. 
Tournefort, the celebrated French botanist, adopt- 
ed the name of this genus in honour of Doctor La- 
vater, of Zurich, of whom but little is known. Al- 
though his public character may have possessed no 
claim to such distinction, his private worth, it may 
be presumed, fully justified Tournefort’s adoption 
of his name to assist a science fraught with so much 
of quiet delight. If we would be reminded of pious 
worth, subtle reasoning, and originality of idea, we 
must turn a thought upon the Lavater of the suc- 
ceeding generation, — upon him who said, “ The 
powers and faculties of the mind have representa- 
tive signs in the solid parts of the countenance.” 
Lavater’s science of Physiognomy engrossed the 
attention of his own country, and also of ours, for 
several years; and although it is now somewhat neg- 
lected, we would strongly impress on the minds of 
our young readers, that it is not neglected because 
wholly founded in error. It is an admitted truth, 
that not only the powers of the mind, but also the 
virtuous or wicked employment of those powers, will 
oftentimes be portrayed on the countenance. Ad- 
mitting this, surely the very worldling ought to avoid 
no 
