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Jpljorakniiron flctlU'SCCUS. Natural Order: Loranthacece — Mistletoe Family. 
|FOUR hundred species or more of the Mistletoe are now 
known to botanists. The leaves are thick and fleshy, the 
“'^flowers a whitish yellow, bearing a half transparent white 
lit'- berry, with a sticky pulp. It is more abundant on elm trees 
3 than on any other, and only when it was found on the oak 
oowas it considered a sacred thing by the Druids, or priests 
of the ancient Britons; when so found, they had a great tri¬ 
umphal procession to gather it, after which, with much solemnity, they 
laid it on a white cloth, and divided it among the people as a charm 
against disease. These plants are parasitic in nature, living on the 
juices of the trees on which they rest. This particular species, the 
American mistletoe, derives its name, which was given it by Nuttall, 
from two Greek words denoting thievish tree. 
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f\UR natures are like oil: compound us with anything, 
^ Yet still we strive to swim upon the top. 
POME, my soul, let us reason together; 
^ Come, for the shadows darken ahead; 
Care and sorrow tighten the tether, 
Life’s sun through the mists grows dim and red. 
— Beaumont and Fletcher. 
Come, ere the long, low light of the summer 
Fade to the brown of the autumn leaf; 
Come, lest the foot of the careless comer 
Lag weary in paths made rough with grief. 
— Barton Grey. 
Great souls, 
By nature half divine, soar to the stars, 
And hold a near acquaintance with the gods. 
— Rovje. 
ATATURE, that framed us of four elements, 
^ ’ Warring within our breasts for regimen, 
Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: 
Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend 
The wondrous architechture of the world, 
And measure ev’ry wand’ring planet’s course, 
Still climbing after knowledge infinite, 
And always moving as the restless spheres, 
Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest 
Until w r e reach the ripest fruit of all. 
— Mario. 
