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to herself the care of distributing them every 
year to her children, as the reward of their 
labours. 
FASCINATION, 
CIRCA, OR ENCHANTER’S NIGHTSHADE. 
Thrice round the grave Circea prints her tread, 
And chaunts the numbers which disturb the dead. 
DARWIN. 
As the name of this plant indicates, it is 
celebrated in magical incantations. Its flowers 
are rose-coloured, and veined with purple; and 
commonly grow in damp and shady places, 
where shrubs fit for the purpose to which this 
has been applied may be supposed to be found. 
Tt is named Circea after the enchantress Circe. 
FELICITY. 
SWEET SULTAN. 
Tus sweet scented species of centaury was 
introduced into England in the reign of Charles 
I. It is mentioned by Parkinson, in 1629,— 
“as a kinde of these corne-flowers, I must 
needs adjoyn another stranger of much beauty, 
and but lately obtained from Constantinople, 
