ONVOLVULUS, FIELD. Class 5, PENTANDRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. This small pink flower rejoices in as many titles as any royal prince, for it is so common and so troublesome, as to have made itself a name in all rural vocabularies; among others, it is known as Weed-bind, Rope-weed, Bell

bind, Bell-wind, With-wind, and Hedgebells.

CAPTIVATION.

Come from the dim woods, come from the sea,
Come to the meadows and laugh with me;
Great heavy trees are gloomy things,
And dismally ever old Neptune sings;
Come to the meadows bright,
Where, in the sunny light,
Over the blades of grass
Soft-winged zephyrs pass;

Come with me there.
Come to the uplands high,
Where the rich cornfields lie
Golden and rare.

Come from the shady woods,

Come from the roaring floods,

Come, where the meadows lie fragrant and fair!

We merry flowers are running

The meadow mazes through;

And be the farmers e'er so cunning,

We're as cunning too!

And many a time the Farmer vows

He'll banish us his land;

TWAMLEY.

And we still run up the Hawthorn bough,

A merry and myriad band.

TWAMLEY.

RANBERRY. Oxycoccus. Class 8, DRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. This berry is very abundant in the United It commonly grows in and about th pools of the swampy moorlands, and therers are often obliged to wade in water to come at them, so that the p they thus win is dearly earned. The botanical name is odd sound but good meaning, being oxycoccus, from two words meaning acid and fruit.

HARDINESS.

The Cranberry blossom dwelleth there

Amid the mountains cold,

Seeming like a fairy gift

Left on the dreary wold.

Oh! and 't is very beautiful,

The flowers are pink and white,
And the small oval polish'd leaves
Are evergreen and bright.

"T is such a wee, fair, dainty thing,
You'd think a greenhouse warm
Would be its proper dwelling place,
Kept close from wind and storm.

But on the moors it dwelleth free
Like a fearless mountain child;
With a rosy cheek, a lightsome look,
And a spirit strong and wild.

The bushes all in water grow,
In those small pools that lie
In scores among the turfy knolls
On mountains broad and high.

TWAMLEY.

ROCUS. Crocus. Class 3, TRIANDRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. According to the Grecian mythology, the name of this flower is derived from Crocus, a youth who was consumed by the ardour of his love for the nymph Smilax, and afterwards changed into the flower which bears his name. The

common saffron used in medicine is a species of crocus, the crocus sativus, a native of Greece and Asia Minor.

CHEERFULNESS.

Oh! many a glorious flower there grows

In far and richer lands;

But high in my affection e'er

The Autumnal Crocus stands.

I love their faces, when by one
And two they're looking out:

I love them when the spreading field
Is purple all about.

I loved them in the by-gone years

Of childhood's thoughtless laughter,
When I marvell'd why the flowers came first,
And the leaves the season after.

I loved them then, I love them now
The gentle and the bright;

I love them for the thoughts they bring
Of Spring's returning light;

When, first-born of the waking earth,

Their kindred gay appear,

And, with the Snow-drop, usher in

The hope-invested year.

HOWITT.

ROSS OF JERUSALEM. Lychnis Viscaria. Class 16, DECANDRIA. Order: PENTAGYNIA. This flower, has been frequently named Cross of Jerusalem, in most of the European languages, the French calling it croix de Jérusalem; the Spanish, cruces de Jerusalem; the Italians, croce di Cavalieri ;

the Germans, Hierosolymorum flos; the Portuguese, cruz de Malta; all tending to dedicate it to religion, and as it appears to have been introduced by the crusaders, we present it as the emblem of religious enthusiasm.

DEVOTION.

The maid who kept

In her young heart the secret of his love,
With all its hoarded store of sympathies
And images of hope, think ye she gave,
When a few years their fleeting course had run,
Her heart again to man?

No! no! She twined

Its riven tendrils round a surer prop,

And rear'd its blighted blossoms towards that sky
Which hath no cloud. She sought devotion's balm,
And, with a gentle sadness, turn'd her soul
From gaiety and song. Pleasure, for her,

Had lost its essence, and the viol's voice

Gave but a sorrowing sound. Even her loved plants
Breathed too distinctly of the form that bent

With hers to watch their budding. 'Mid their flowers,
And through the twining of their puerile stems,
The semblance of a cold, dead hand would rise,
Until she bade them droop and pass away
With him she mourn'd.

SIGOURNEY.

ROWN IMPERIAL. Fritillaria Imperialis. Class 6, HEXANDRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. This noble flower is said to have been brought into England in the time of Shakspeare, who has introduced it in his Winter's Tale:

Bold oxlip, and

The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds;
The flower de luce being one.

On this family of plants modern botanists have bestowed the name of Fritillaria, of which this, from its commanding deportment and brilliant colours, is considered the sovereign.

The lily's height bespoke command,

A fair imperial flower;

She seem'd design'd for Flora's hand,

The sceptre of her power.

We have therefore elevated this distinguished member of Flora's kingdom to be the emblem of majesty, and the representative of power in our floral sentiments.

MAJESTY.

There is for Kings a fame that never dies,
A sunlike glory which itself supplies,
The light that emanates from grateful minds,
Defying envy, which its lustre blinds.
There is, for ever flowing and to flow,
For Him who turns to joy his people's woe,
A stream of love unwearied in its course,
A nation's heart its warm and salient source.
Through loyal veins, devolved from sires to sons,
From age to age the faithful current runs,
And bears for ever on in just renown
The buoyant name that dignified a crown.
One Patriot King has earn'd this meed of fame,
And Ireland's voice will vindicate His claim.

QUILLINAN.