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Show ( u6 ] Quick through the n1urmuring gloom his foodl:eps tread, O'er groaning heaps, the dying and the dead, Vault o'er the plain, and in the tangled wood, Lo ! dead Eliza weltering in her blood ! - -Soon hears his lifl:ening fon the welc01ne founds, With open arms and fparkling eyes he bounds:" Speak low," he cries, and gives his little hand, " Eliza :fleeps upon the dew-cold fand ; 310 " Poor weeping babe with bloody fingers prefs' d, 3 r 5 " And tried with pouting lips her milklefs breafl: ; " Alas l we both with cold and hunger quake- ,, 'Vhy do you weep?-Mama will foon awake." -"She'll wake no more!" the hopelefs mourner cried, Upturn'd his eyes, and clafp'd his hands, and :figh'd: 320 Stretch'd on the ground awhile entranc'd he lay, And prefs' d warm kiffes on the lifelefs clay ; And then upfprung with wild convuHive fl:art, And all the Father kindled in his heart ; '~ Oh, Heavens!" he cried, "my :hrfl ra:f11 vow forgive; " Thefe bind to earth, for thefe I pray to live!"- ( 117 ) Round his chill babes he wrapp 'd his crirrifon vefl, And clafp' d thetn fobbing to his aching breafl. Trz£JO Harlot-Nyn~phs, the fair CuscUTAs, pleafe With labour' d negligence, and fl:udied eafe ; In the meek garb of modefl worth difguifcd, The eye averted, and the fmile chafl:ifed, 330 With fly approach they fpread their dangerous charms, And round their viCtim ·wind their wiry arms. Cufcuta. I. 329. Dodder. Four males, two females. Thi~ parafite plant (the feed fplitting without cotyledons), protrudes a fpiral body, and not endeavouring to root itfelf in the earth, afcends the vegetables in its vicinity, fpirally W. S. E. 01 contrary to the movement of the fun; and abforbs its nourifhment by veffels apparently inferted into its fupporters. It bears no leaves, except here and there a fcale, very fmall, membraneous, and clofe under the branch. Lin. Spec. Plant. edit. a Reichard. Vol. I. p. 35'2. The Rev. T. Martyn, in his elegant letters on botany, adds, that, not content with fuupport, where it lays hold, there it draws its nourifhment; and, at length-, in gratitude for all this, llrangles its entertainer. Letter xv. A conteft for air and light obtains throughout the whole vegetable world; fhrubs rife above herbs, and, by precluding the air and light from them, injure or defl:roy them; trees fuffocate or incommode lhrubs; the parafite climbing plants, as Ivy, Clematis, incommode the taller trees; and other parafites, which exifl: without having roots on the ground, as MiUetoey Tillandfia, Epidcndrum, and the moffes and funguffes, incommode them all. Some of the plants with voluble fl:ems afcend other plants fpirally eafl:.fouth-wefl:, as Humulus, Hop, Lonicera, Honey-fuckle, Tamus, black Bryony, Helxine. Others tum their fpiral fl:ems wefl:-fouth-eaft, as Convolvulus, Corn-bind, Phofealus, Kidney-bean,. Bafella, Cynanche, Euphorbia, Eupatorium. The proximate or final caufes of thiS' dill:erence have not been invefl:igated. Other plants are furnifhed with tendrils for the purpofe of climbing: if the tendril meets with nothing to lay hold of in its firfi revolu--. |