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or, as the same habit is still more elegantly expressed, 
“ The flower enamoured of the sun, 
At his departure hangs her head and weeps, 
And shrouds her sweetness up, and keeps 
Sad vigils like a cloistered nun. 
Till his reviving ray appears, 
Waking her beauty as he dries her tears.” 
Lines scarcely surpassed by Shakspeare himself: 
ts Her eyes like Marigolds had sheathed their light. 
And canopied in darkness sweetly lay, 
Till they might open to adorn the day.” 
From the habit above noticed this flower has obtained the designation of Solis-sponsa> 
Spouse of the Sun ; and, perhaps, with at least as much propriety as 
4t The proud giant of the garden race,” 
which, if equally susceptible, is prevented the like manifestation by a peculiar rigidity, 
and which sustains its usual appellation merely from the resemblance of its expanded 
flower to the great luminary. The Marygold and Sun-flower have, at different periods, 
reciprocally interchanged names, which will account, in some little degree, for the dis¬ 
crepancy of certain poetical descriptions. The loyal and orthodox George Wither, of the 
sixteenth century, whose fair boast it was, 
44 That from every thing he saw 
He could some invention draw,” 
thus improves our subject. 
44 When with a serious musing I behold 
The grateful and obsequious Mari/gold, 
How duly, every morning, she displays 
Her open breast, when Titan spreads his rays; 
How she observes him, in his daily walk. 
Still bending tow’rds him her smell slender stalk ; 
How, when he down declines, she droops and mourns, 
Bedew’d, as ’fcvvere with tears, till he returns ; 
And how she veils her flowers when he "is gone, 
As if she scorned to be looked on 
By an inferior eye ; or did contemn 
To wait upon a meaner light than him: 
When this I meditate, methinks the flowers 
Have spirits for more generous than ours. 
And give us fair examples to despise 
The servile fownings and idolatries, 
Wherewith we court these earthly things below, 
Which merit not the service we bestow.” E.) 
This is a very common plant in the corn-fields and vineyards of Portugal, and is used as 
food for milking cows. The milk yielded by the cows which are fed upon it is very good. 
When we consider the constant intercourse maintained between Portugal and Falmouth, it 
is not improbable that the seeds of the plants I found might have been imported from 
thence. (Thus have various exotics been introduced, and in time become naturalized ; as 
illustrated by other foreign plants now to be observed on Ballast-hills, near Sunderland, and 
like situations. According to Dr. Penneck, in Jones’s Botanical Tour, in the mild, cli¬ 
mate of Penzance even the Acanilms has fortuitously appeared. E.) 
