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Show [ 162. ] '' Not yet, not yet, your dying love refign f " This lafl:, lafl: kifs receive !-no longer thine!''She faid, and ceafecl,-her fl:iffen' d form I-Ie prefs' d, 2 70 And :fl:rain' d the briny column to his breaft ;. Printed with quivering lips the lifelefs fnow, And wept, and gazed the 1nonu1nent of woe .. So when JEneas through the flames of Troy Bore his pale fire, and led his lovely boy ; With loitering fiep the fair Creufa fiay' d, And Death involved her in eternal iliade.- Oft the lone Pilgrim, that his road forfakes, Marks the wide ruins, and the fulphur' d lakes;· On Inouldering piles amid afphaltic mud 275 Hears the hoarfe bittern, where Go1norrah ftoocl; 280 Reeals the unhappy Pair with lifted eye, Leans on the cryftal tomb, and breathes the :filent :ligh. With net-wove faili and glittering gorget drefs' d, And fcarlet robe lapell' d upon her breaft, [ 1·6 3 ] Stern ARA frowns, the meafured 1narch aifumes, 2 8 5 Trails her long lance, and nods her iliadowy plumes; 'While Love's foft bearns illume her treacherous eyes, And Beauty lightens through the thin difguife. So erft, when HERCULEs, untamed by toil, Own'd the foft power of DEJ AN IRA's f1nile ;- His lion-fpoils the laughing Fair demands, And gives the djfl:aff to his awkward hands; . ~rum. I. 285. Cuckow-pint, of the clafs Gynandria, or mafculine ladies. The pifltl or female part of the flower, rifes like a club, is covered above or clothed, as it were, by the anthers or males; and fomc of the fpccies have a large fcarlct blotch in the middle of every leaf. The fingula~· and wonderful fl:ruCl:ure of this flower has occafioned many difputes among~ ' botamfls. Sec Tou:niff. Malpig. Dillen. Riven. &c. The receptacle is enlarged 1nto a naked club, With the germs at its bafe; the flamens are affixed to thereceptacle amidfl: the germs (a natural prodigy), and thus do not need the affiHancc of elevating filaments: hence the flower may be faid to be inverted. Families of Plants Hanflated from Linneus, p. 618. The fpadix of this plant is frequently quite white, or coloured, and the leaves liable to be fl:reaked with white, and to have biack or fcarlet blotches on them. As the plant has no corol or bloffom, it is probable the coloured juices in thefe parts of the {heath or leaves may ferve the fame purpofe as the coloured juices in the petals of other flowers. from which I fuppofe the honey to be prepared. See note on Hellcborus. I am in~ formed that thofe tulip-roots which have a red cuticle produce reel flowers. Sec Rubia. When the petals of the tulip become firiped with many colours, the plant lofcs almofl: half of its height; and the method of making them thus break into colours is by tranfplanting them into a meagre or fandy foil, after tbry have previoujly enjoyed rt richer foil: hence it appears, that the plant is weakened when the flower becomes variegated. See .note on Anemone. For the acquired hab1ts of vegetables, See Tulipa, Orchis. The roots of the Arum are fcratched up and eaten by t hrufhcs in fcvere fnowy fea! ons. White's IliH. of Selbourn, p. 4-3· Y2 |