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2. ^NOTHERA. 
1. ^.BIENNIS. Evening Primrose. 
Native of Virgiuia. (Naturalized near Doncaster. Mag. Nat. Hist.) 
The flowers of this beautiful plant expand just as the sun sinks below the horizon. Some of the exotic 
species open almost instantaneously ; which is effected by a very sudden retraction of the calyx leaves, 
which are forcibly thrown against the peduncles, and followed by an immediate expansion of the petals. 
The Evening Primrose is a plant well adapted to the garden or shrubbery ; it will flourish even in the 
smoky city. Bernard Barton’s beautiful Poem has immortalized this stately plant. 
“ Fair flow’r, that shunn’stthe glare of day. 
Yet lov’st to open, meekly bold. 
To evening’s hues of sober grey 
Thy cup of paly gold ; — 
I love to watch at silent eve 
Thy scatter’d blossoms’ lonely light, 
And have my inmost heart receive 
The influence of that sight. 
I love at such an hour to mark 
Their beauty greet the night-breeze chill. 
And shine, ’mid shadows gathering dark. 
The garden’s glory still. 
For such, ’tis sweet to think the while. 
When cares and griefs the breast invade. 
Is friendship’s animating smile 
In sorrow’s dark’ning shade. 
Thus it bursts forth, like thy pale cup, 
Glist’ning amid its dewy tears. 
And bears the sinking spirit up 
Amid its chilling fears. 
But still more animating far. 
If meek Religion’s eye may trace. 
E’en in thy glimmering earth-born star. 
The holier hope of Grace. 
The hope — that as thy beauteous bloom 
Expands to glad the close of day. 
So through the shadows of the tomb 
May break forth Mercy’s ray !” 
ORDER XXXII. CIRC^ACE^. 
1. CIRC^A. 
1. C. LUTETIANA. Commoii Enchanter’s Nightshade. June — July. 1/ 
Moist shady places. In the neighbourhood of York, frequent. 
2. C. ALPiNA. ( 3 . Mountain Enchanter’s Nightshade. July. 1/ 
Woods at Sowerhy bridge. Luddenden foot, Ripponden, <fec. 
sparingly. 
