f)tn*cuium dflHTlttCUHt. Natural Order: Composites—Aster Family. 
FEW varieties of'the Hawkweed from France and Italy are 
to be found in our gardens. The blossoms of the cultivated 
Ipf plants are yellow, silvery, or red in color. The flowers of 
the above native plant are yellow, and throughout Canada 
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and the United States it is found in the woods in dry situa¬ 
tions. The stalk is about two feet high, and the blossom 
appears during the months of August and September. The ancients 
supposed this, as well as the other species, to strengthen the sight of 
gsC birds of prey. The classic name is derived from ierax , a hawk, on 
account of the properties ascribed to it. 
TONG while I sought to what I might compare 
^ Those powerful eyes, which lighten my dark spirit, 
Yet found I nought on earth to which I dare 
Resemble the image of their goodly light. —Spenser. 
/CREATURES there be of sight so keen and high 
That even to the sun they bend their gaze; 
Others who, dazzled by too fierce a blaze, 
Issue not forth till evening vails the sky. 
. — Petrarch. 
TTER lively looks a sprightly mind disclose, 
1 Quick as her eyes, and as unfixed as those; 
Favors to none, to all she smiles extends, 
Oft she rejects, but never once offends. 
— Pope. 
T T IS blazing eyes, like two bright shining fields, 
-*• Did burn with wrath, and sparkled living fire; 
As two broad beacons set in open fields 
Send forth their flames. —Spenser. 
11 OUR hawkeyes are keen and bright, 
A Keen with triumph, watching still 
To pierce me through with pointed light; 
But oftentimes they flash and glitter 
Like sunshine on a dancing rill. 
— Tennyson. 
IN her two eyes two living lamps did flame, 
*- Kindled above, at the heavenly light, 
And darting fiery beams out of the same, 
So passing pearceant, and so wondrous bright, 
That quite bereaved the rash beholders of their sight. 
— Spenser. 
