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Bacd)arts Ijttltiuifolttt. Natural Order: Covipositic — Aster Family. 
HIS shrub is from six to twelve feet high, and grows usually 
in alluvial soil, which is washed up from the bed of the sea 
or rivers and deposited on the shore. A white dust covers 
the leaves and branches, and the flower heads that bear the 
seeds are furnished with long, slender hairs. The flowers 
are white, with a tint of purple, and appear during the fall 
It has sufficient beauty to recommend it for cultivation. 
The name of this shrub is derived from Bacchus, the deity of wine 
and reveling, because its fragrance savors of wine. It is sometimes 
called Groundsel Tree, from its resemblance to the weedy plant of 
that name. 
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T X what thou eat'st and drinkest seek from thence 
A Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight; 
So thou may’st live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop 
Into thy mother’s lap, or be with ease 
Gather’d, not harshly pluck’d, for death mature. 
— Milton. 
TITUNE is like anger; for it makes us strong, 
Blind and impatient, and it leads us wrong; 
The strength is quickly lost, we feel the error long. 
— Crcibbe. 
QHALL I, to please another wine-sprung mind, 
Lose all mine own? —George Herbert. 
DH thou invisible spirit of wine, 
^ If thou hast no name to be known by, let 
Us call thee devil. 
— Shakespeare. 
HP HE jov which wine can give, like smoky fires, 
A Obscures their sight, whose fancy it inspires. 
—Hill. 
OOULD every drunkard, ere he sits to dine, 
^ Feel in his head the dizzy fumes of wine, 
No more would Bacchus chain the willing soul. 
But loathing horror shun the poison’d bowl. 
-Merivale. 
'T'HOU sparkling bowl! thou sparkling bowl! 
Though lips of bards thy brim may press, 
And eyes of beauty o’er thee roll, 
And song and dance thy power confess, 
I will not touch thee! for there clings 
A scorpion to thy side, that stings. —John Pierpont. 
