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Saxifraga Umbrosa. Class 10, DECANDRIA. Order: DIGYNIA. This pretty and almost universal border plant, is a species of saxifrage. It has received the name also of none-so-pretty; and, if we view it with attention, we shall acknowledge that its prettily spotted petals, which are painted with so much delicacy, fully deserve this appellation. Notwithstanding its beauty, it has been made the emblem of a light and frivolous sentiment, for a lover would think it an insult to his mistress, to present her with a nosegay of its flowers.

FRIVOLITY.

Around him some mysterious circle thrown
Repell'd approach and show'd him still alone;
Upon his eye sat something of reproof,

That kept at least frivolity aloof.

BYRON.

His sports were fair, his joyance innocent,
Sweet without sour, and honey without gall;
And he himself seem'd made for merriment,
Merrily masking both in bower and hall.

Where is his son,

SPENSER.

The nimble-footed, mad-cap prince of Wales,

And his comrades, that doff'd the world aside,

And bid it pass.

SHAKSPEARE.

To business that we love, we rise betime,

And go to it with delight.

SHAKSPEARE.

Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high,
Drain every drop! - to-morrow we may die.

BYRON.

OTOS. Lotus. Class 17, DIADELPHIA. Order: DECANDRIA. A favourite plant among the ancients, who frequently refer to it in their poetry and mythology. The definition of Lotos in the Greek Lexicon, says Mrs. Wirt, is this, "A tree whose fruit is so sweet that foreigners, having

tasted of it, forget their own country"—whence the proverb, to have eaten of the Lotos, is applied to those who prefer a foreign country to their own.

Its flower is the emblem of estranged love; its leaf of recantation.

ESTRANGED LOVE.

That anxious torture may I never feel,

Which, doubtful, watches o'er a wandering heart.
O who that bitter torment can reveal,
Or tell the pining anguish of that smart!
In those affections may I ne'er have part,
Which easily transferr'd can learn to rove:
No, dearest Cupid! when I feel thy dart,
For thy sweet Psyche's sake may no false love,
The tenderness I prize lightly from me rove!
TIGHE.

In want, and war, and peril,

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Things that would thrill the hearer's blood to tell of,
My heart grew human when I thought of thee-
Imogine would have shudder'd for my danger-
Imogine would have bound my leechless wounds—
Imogine would have sought my nameless corse—
And known it well-and she was wedded- wedded —
Was there no name in hell's dark catalogue

To brand thee with, but mine immortal foe's?
And did I 'scape from war, and want, and famine,
To perish by the falsehood of a woman.

MATURIN.

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OTOS Lotus Class 17, DIADELPHIA. Order: DECANDRIA. A favourite plant ong the ancients, who frequently refer in their poetry and mythology. The of Lotos in the Greek Lexicon, * Wirt, is this, "A tree whose sweet that foreigners, having

, forget their own country"-whence the proverb, to of the Lotos, is applied to those who prefer a foreign why to their own.

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