AMBROSIA.
Ambrosia.

(Bitter Weed.) Class 19. Order 5. A North American genus, with the exception of one species in Peru, and another indigenous to the sea-shores of the LeFound in Upper Louisiana.

vant.

LOVE RETURNED.

To farthest shores the ambrosial spirit flies,
Sweet to the world, and grateful to the skies.

SENTIMENT.

And canst thou not accord thy heart
In unison with mine,

Whose language thou alone hast heard,
Thou only canst divine?

And wilt thou not revoke that cold

And merciless decree,

Nor yield one solitary thought,

To plead my wrongs to thee?

Pope.

Dawes.

ANSWER.

Oh, knowest thou, dear one, of Woman's love,
With its faith that woes more deeply prove,
Its fondness wide as the limitless wave,
And chainless by nought but the silent grave;
With devotion as humble as that which brings
To his idol the Indian's offerings;

Yet proud as that which the priestess feels,

When she nurses the flame of the shrine while she

kneels:

Oh, knowest thou, dear, what this love may be?

Such ever has been in my heart for thee.

Mrs. Embury.

AMERICAN STARWORT.
Aster, tradescanti.

Class 19. Order 2. This genus, consisting of more than 100 species, is almost exclusively indigenous to N. America and the Cape of Good Hope. It flowers late, and the flowers are of every variety of color.

WELCOME TO A STRANGER.

And thus do come the autumn flowers,
Lingering like exiles on their way,
And ere they ventured to our bowers
Put on their best of bright and gay.

Anonymous.

SENTIMENT.

Stranger, new flowers in our vales are seen,
With a dazzling eye, and a lovely green.-
They scent the breath of the dewy morn:
They feed no worm, and they hide no thorn,
But revel and glow in our balmy air;

They are flowers which Freedom hath planted there.

This bud of welcome to thee we give,-
Bid its unborn sweets in thy bosom live;
It shall charm thee from all a stranger's pain,
Reserve, suspicion, and dark disdain:

A race in its freshness and bloom are we;
Bring no cares from a worn-out world with thee.

Mrs. Sigourney.

ANEMONE.

Anemone. Virginiana.

(Wind-flower.) Class 13. Order 13. Principally European, but found in America. The flowers of the Anemone are of various colors-white, blue, purple, yellow, crimson, etc.

ANTICIPATION.

Beside a fading bank of snow,
A lovely Anemone blew,

Unfolding to the sun's bright glow
Its leaves of heaven's serenest hue:-
'Tis Spring, I cried; pale Winter 's fled;
The earliest wreath of flowers is blown;
The blossoms, withered long and dead,
Will soon proclaim their tyrant flown.

Percival.

SENTIMENT.

Alas! that dreams are only dreams,

That fancy cannot give

A lasting beauty to those forms

Which scarce a moment live.

Alas! that youth's fond hopes should fade,
And love be but a name,

While its rainbows, followed e'er so fast,
Are distant still the same.

Dawes.

APOCYNUM.
Hypericifolium.

(Indian Hemp.) Class 5.

Order

2. There are several species of this genus in South America, India, and the Cape of Good Hope.

FALSEHOOD.

I bid thee of this fair smiling friend beware,
And say the false Apocynum is there.

Darwin.

SENTIMENT.

Touch not the hand they stretch to you;
The falsely proffered cup put by:
Will you believe a coward true?

Or taste the poison draught to die?

Their friendship is a lurking snare;
Their honor but an idle breath;
Their smile-the smile that traitors wear;
Their love is hate, their life is death.

W. G. Simms.

ARUM..

Dracontium.

Order 7. A

(Wake Robin.) Class 21.
class of about 30 species, principally in-
digenous to India and the warmer parts of
Europe and America.

FEROCITY AND DECEIT.

Arum, that in a mantling hood conceals

Her sanguine club, and spreads her spotted leaf, Armed with keen tortures for the unwary tongue.

Gisborne.

SENTIMENT.

O, he's accurst from all that 's good,
Who never knew Love's healing power;
Such sinner on his sins must brood,
And wait alone his hour.

If stranger to earth's beauty-human love,
There is no rest below, nor hope above.

Dana.