170 LANGUAGE AND 
NIGHTSHADE. 
Solanum nigrum .... Class 5 ; Order ! 
A very extensive genus—moro than 100 species are 
found in America. It has white flowers, with yel¬ 
low anthers. 
DARK THOUGHTS.-SCEPTICISM. 
March— march—march, 
Earth groans as they tread! 
Each carries a skull. 
Going down to the dead. 
Every stride, every stamp. 
Every footfall is bolder;— 
’Tis a skeleton’s tramp, 
With a skull on its shoulder. 
But oh ! how he steps 
With a high-tossing head, 
That clay-covered bone, 
Going down to the dead. 
A. C. Coke. 
‘ Ah me ! the laurel wreath that murder wears, 
Blood-nursed and watered by the widow’s tears, 
Seems not so foul, so tainted, and so dread 
As waves the nightshade round the sceptic’s head.” 
Campbell. 
