UTTER-CUP. Ranunculus Eris. Class 13, POLYANDRIA. Order: POLYGYNIA. This plant contains many virulent qualities, which are said to affect cattle, especially sheep, and particularly the root, which has the property of inflaming and blistering the skin. Shakspeare mentions it as the cuckoo

Nettles, cuckoo-flowers,

Darnell, and all the wild weeds.

And Clare, the Northamptonshire poet, alludes to its ungrateful qualities in some lines on the "Eternity of Nature:" detailing his morning's walk, he says,

I wander out and rhyme;
What hour the dewy morning's infancy

Hangs on each blade of grass and every tree,
And sprents the red thighs of the humble bee,
Who 'gins betimes unwearied minstrelsy;
Who breakfasts, dines, and most divinely sups,
With every flower save golden buttercups,-
On whose proud bosoms he will never go,
But passes by with scarcely how do ye do,'
Since in their showy, shining, gaudy cells,
Haply the summer's honey never dwells.

INGRATITUDE.

I served thee fifteen hard campaigns,

And pitch'd thy standards in these foreign fields;
By me thy greatness grew; thy years grew with it;
But thy ingratitude outgrew them both.

DRYDEN.

He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one;
All other crimes may pass for virtues in him.

He that doth public good for multitudes,
Finds few are truly grateful.

YOUNG.

MARSTON.

AMELLIA, or JAPAN ROSE. Camellia Japonica. Class 16, MONADELPHIA. Order: POLYANDRIA. This splendid genus of flowers received its name from Geo. Joseph Kamel, whose name is written Camellus in Latin, a Jesuit, writer of a botanical work. It was introduced into England about the middle of last century, and has become a great favourite with florists, both in that country and the United States. There are many very splendid varieties to be found in the gardens and conservatories of Philadelphia.

MY DESTINY IS IN YOUR HANDS.

In pleasure's dream or sorrow's hour,
In crowded hall or lonely bower,
The business of my soul shall be,

For ever to remember thee!

MOORE.

Oh magic of love! unembellish'd by you

Has the garden a blush or the herbage a hue?

Or blooms there a prospect in nature or art,

Like the vista that shines through the eye to the heart?

That happy minglement of hearts,

MOORE.

Where, chang'd as chemic compounds are,
Each with its own existence parts,
To find a new one, happier far!

MOORE.

Oh what, while I could hear and see
Such words and looks, was heaven to me?
Though gross the air on earth I drew,
'Twas blessed, while she breath'd it too;
Though dark the flowers, though dim the sky,
Love lent them light, while she was nigh.

MOORE.

ANTERBURY BELL.

Campanula Me

dium. Class 5, PENTANDRIA. Order: Mo-
NOGYNIA. This was a very fashionable plant
some thirty years ago, and is still cultivated.
It is used in Holland as an ornament to halls
and staircases, and for placing before fire-
places in the summer.
For this purpose it

is planted in large pots, and is trained in such a manner as to cover a large surface, and continues to flower for two or three months in shady places. When in full flower it is a very magnificent plant, rising in a pyramidal shape, not unlike that of the towering pagoda. It may be trained to almost any shape, and we presume that on this account it has been made the emblem of gratitude.

GRATITUDE.

The benefits he sow'd in me, met not
Unthankful ground, but yielded him his own
With fair increase; and I still glory in it.

I find a pious gratitude disperse

MASSINGER.

Within my soul; and every thought of him
Engenders a warm sigh within me, which,
Like curls of holy incense, overtake
Each other in my bosom, and enlarge
With their embrace his sweet remembrance.

SHIRLEY.

I have five hundred crowns,

The thrifty hire I saved under your father,
Which I did store, to be my foster nurse,
When service should in my old limbs lie lame,
And unregarded age in corners thrown;
Take that: and He that doth the ravens feed,
Yea providently caters for the sparrow,

Be comfort to my age.

SHAKSPEARE.

ARDINAL'S FLOWER. Lobelia Cardinalis. Class 5, PENTANDRIA. Order: MoNOGYNIA. This elegant plant is decorated with bright scarlet flowers. It is indigenous in our country, growing on the borders of rivers and streamlets. It is a flower of singular elegance and richness.

DISTINCTION.

For places in the court, are but like beds
In the hospital; where this man's head lies
At that man's foot, and so lower and lower.

WEBSTER.

If on the sudden he begins to rise;
No man that lives can count his enemies.

All preferment

MIDDLETON.

That springs from sin and lust shoots up quickly;
As gard'ner's crops do in the rott'nest grounds;
So is all means raised from base prostitution,
Even like a salad growing upon a dunghill.
MIDDLETON.

What throngs of great impediments besiege
The virtuous mind? so thick, they jostle
One another as they come. Hath vice a
Charter got, that none must rise, but such, who
Of the devil's faction are? the way to

Honour is not evermore the way to

Hell:
: a virtuous man may climb. Let the
Flatterer sell his lies elsewhere, it is
Unthrifty merchandise to change my gold
For breath.

DAVENANT.

ARNATION. Dianthus. Class 10, DECANDRIA. Order: MONOGYNIA. We hope that disdain is as scarce among our country women as the yellow carnation is in our native land. As disdainful people generally exact homage, and possess little amiability; so with this plant, it is the least beautiful and fragrant of its kind, yet requires continual care and attention.

DISDAIN.

So proud she shineth in her princely state,
Looking to heaven; for earth she did disdain,
And sitting high; for lowly she did hate:
Lo, underneath her scornful feet was lain,
A dreadful dragon with an hideous train.

SPENSER.

But shall the blood of her that loves me then
Be sacrificed to her disdainfulness
That scorns my love? And shall I hope to win
Mercy from her by being merciless?

DANIEL.

In vain he thus attempts her mind to move,
With tears and prayers, and late repenting love,
Disdainfully she look'd; then turning round,
But fix'd her eyes unmoved upon the ground.

DRYDEN.

There dwelt the scorn of vice, and pity too,
For those that did what she disdain'd to do,
So gentle and severe, that what was bad,
At once her hatred and her pardon had.

WALLER.

There clamours with disdain the Scylla heard;
Much grudg'd the praise, but more the robb'd reward.

DRYDEN.