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Show [ J6 ] Hafie, glittering nations, tenants of the air, Oh fleer frotn hence your viewlefs courfe afar! ' If with foft words, fweet blufhes, nods, and f1niles, I 4 5 The three dread Syrens lure you to their toils, Lin1ed by their art, in vain you poin~ your fiings, In vain the efforts of your w h1. rn. ng W. ing's .- Go, feek your gilded 1nates and infant hives, Nor tafl:e the honey purchas' d with your lives! 150 When heaven's hjgh vault condenfing clouds defonn, Fair AMARYLLis flies the incumbent fionn. are fo irritable, that when an infctl: creeps upon them, they fold up, and crufl1 or pierce it to death. The la{l: profeffor Linneus, in his Supplementum Plantarum, gives the following account of the Arum Mufcivorum. The flower has the fmell of carrion; by which the flies are invited to lay their eggs in the chamber of the flower, but in vain endeav0ur to efcape, being prevented by the hairs pointing inwards; and thus perifh in the flower, whence its name of fly-eater. P. 411. In the Dypfacus is another contrivance for this purpofe, a bafon of water is placed round each joint of the !l:em. In the Drofera is another kind of fly-trap. See Dypfacus and Drofera; the flowers of Silene and CucGbalus are clofcd aH day, but are open and give an agreeable odour in the night. See Cerea. See additional notes at the end of the poem. Amaryllis. 1. 152. Formoflffima. Mon: beautiful Amaryllis. Six males, one female. Some of the bell-flowers clofe their apertures at night, or in rainy or cold weather, as the convolvulus, <~nd thus proteCt their included !l:amens and pi!l:ils. Other bell-flowers |