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Show 20 ] Or birds in [ weet repofc his iliades recede, Winds the fiill vale, and Dopes the velvet n1eacl; I So On the pale fiream expiring Zephyrs fink, And Moonlight Deeps upon its hoary brink. Gigantic Nymph r the fair KLEINHOVIA reigns, The grace and terror of Ori~a' s plains ; O'er her warm cheek the bluib of beauty fwitns, And nerves Herculean bend her iinewy limbs ; With frolic eye Jbe views the affrighted throng, And fhakes the meadows as Jbe towers along; With playful violence difplays her charms, And bears her trembling lovers in her arms. Kleinhovia. I. I 83. In this clafs the males in each flower are fupported by the female. The name of the clafs may be tranflated " Viragoes," or " Feminine Males." The largefl: tree perhaps in the world is of the fame natural order as Kleinhovia; it is the Adanfonia, or Ethiopian Sour-gourd, or African Calabalh-tree. Mr. Adanfon fays the diameter of the trunk frequently exceeds 25 feet, aud the horizontal branches are from 45 to 55 feet long, and fo large that each branch is. eqt~;~l to the largell: trees of Europe. The breadth of the top is from 120 to I 50 feet; and one of the roots bared only in part by the wafbing away of the earth from the river, near which it grew, meafured I I o feet long; and yet thefe fiupendous trees never exceed 70 feet in. height. Y oyage to SenegaL r 21 J So fair THALESTRrs ihook her plumy crefi, And bound in rigid mail her jutting breafi; Poifed her long lance amid the walks of war, And Beauty thunder'd frotn Bellona's car; Greece arm' d in vain, her captive heroes wove I 9 5 The chains of conque.ft with the wreaths of love. When o'er the cultivated Ia wns and dreary wafies Retiring A utmnn flings her how ling bla.fts, Bends in tumultuous waves the :ll:ruggling woods, And fhowers their leafy honours on the floods,. In withering heaps colleas the Bowery fpoil, And each chill in feB: finks beneath the foil ; Quick flies fair TuLIPA the loud alarms, And folds her infant clofer in her anns ;, 200 ·Tulipa. I. 204. Tulip. What is in common language called a bulbous-root, is by Linneus termed the Hybernacle, or vVinter-lodge of the young plant. As thefe bulbs . in every refpeet refemble buds, except in their being produced under ground, and ine elude the leaves and flower in miniature, which are to be expanded in the enfuing fpring. By cautioufly cutting in winter ;hrough t~e concentric coats of a tulip-root, l~~gitudinally from. the top to the bafe, and takwg them off fucceffively, the whole |
