Deep in her unfrequented bower,
Sweet Philomela pour'd her strain ;
The bird of eve approv'd her flower,
And answered thus the anxious swain:

“Live unseen!

By moonlight shades, in valleys green,
Lovely flower, we'll live unseen.

Of our pleasures deem not lightly,
Laughing day may look more sprightly ;
But I love the modest mien,

Still I love the modest mien

Of gentle evening fair, and her star-trained queen.

“Didst thou, shepherd, never find

Pleasure is of pensive kind?

Has thy cottage never known,
That she loves to dwell alone?
Dost thou not, at evening hour,
Feel some soft and secret power,
Gliding o'er thy yielding mind,
Leave sweet serenity behind,
While, all disarm'd, the cares of day
Steal through the falling gloom away?
Love to think thy lot was laid

In this undistinguished shade.

Far from the world's infectious view
Thy little virtues safely blew.

Go, and in day's more dangerous hour
Guard thy emblematic flower."

Linnæa borealis.

Two-flowered Linnæa.

Didynamia Angiospermia.

Flowers in pairs. Stems thread-shaped, from three to six feet long, trailing. Leaves opposite, roundish-eggshaped, with two or three serratures on each side, ending in leaf-stalks. Branches alternate, undivided, upright, an inch long, bearing six or eight leaves. Fruit-stalks terminating the older branches, solitary, a finger's length, upright. Blossom white on the outside, flesh-coloured within. In the night emitting a fragrant odour like the Spirea. Berry dry, three-celled. Seeds solitary, or in pairs. Withering.

LINNAEUS had distinguished many of his friends by affixing their names to various plants. The Celsia was so called in honour of Celsius, one of his earliest patrons. The Kalmia, now so well known in our gardens, commemorated his friendship for professor Kalm, his pupil and fellow-labourer. For himself he selected the Linnæa Borealis, which he describes as "a little northern plant, flowering early, depressed, abject, and long overlooked;" and then he traces a resemblance between this plant and his own early lot. Like the little flower, un

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folding in a remote northern region, without fortune, or any of the usual means of advancement, he was long unknown and overlooked. The world thought not of him; while, indigent and obscure, he pursued in secret his scientific researches. Few, indeed, knew and valued the solitary wanderer, who, with little beside his magnifying glass and his basket for specimens, was exploring the recesses of nature, and tracking her footsteps to her inmost retreats. mountain and glen, forest and moor, alike yielded up their treasures to the ardent enquirer; and enriched by these sylvan spoils, he came forth and excited the astonishment and delight of kindred minds in every region. And now his resemblance to the little northern flower passes rapidly away. Men of science, in every civilized country, press eagerly forward to avail themselves of the discoveries of Linnæus, and to share in his pursuits. Many of his pupils took long voyages, in search of plants and other productions of foreign countries for his use, esteeming themselves well repaid if he named them in his writings. The clouds which had gathered round him in his youth were dissipated, and, for the last forty years of his life, he saw himself surrounded by the honours and advantages his country and his prince had bestowed upon him. When he died, a crowned