(Eakeolaria l)Jlbl'tha. Natural Order: Scrophulariacea — Figvjort family. 
CALCEOLARIAS came originally from South America and 
New Zealand. There are two species of this plant, differing 
entirely from each other, in regard to the foliage. One is 
herbaceous, with large,' oval, downy leaves, and grows about 
a foot and a half high; the other is a shrub with small, oval 
leaves resembling those of the sage, except that they are a 
purer green. The flowers are alike in shape, the heibaceous hawng 
rather the largest. They are like a pouch or bag of velvet, sometimes 
of a plain color, and again covered with dots; indeed they often remind 
one of the plump body of a beautiful spider, only they have not spina- 
rets and legs. The blossoms, which are superb in color, are often large 
enough to hold a teaspoonful of water. 
0 u 0 H i| + 
O F all the passions that possess mankind, 
The love of novelty rules most the mind; 
In search of this, from realm to realm we roam; 
Our fleets come fraught with ev’ry folly home. 
OTILL sighs the world for something new, 
^ For something new; 
Imploring me, imploring you 
Some will-o’-wisp to help pursue. 
All, hapless world! What will it do, 
Imploring me, imploring you, 
For something new? —Ralph Hoyt. 
— Foote. 
O'MANGE is written on the tide, 
^ On the forest’s leafy pride; 
On the streamlet, glancing bright, 
On the jewel’d crown of night; 
All where’er the eye can rest 
Show it legibly imprest. 
— Clinch. 
1 HAVE lived in cities all my birth, 
Where all was noise, and life, and varying scene; 
Recurrent news which set all men agape, 
New faces, and new friends, and shows and revels, 
Mingling in constant action and quick change. 
— Boker. 
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