CLEMATIS.
C. Virginica.

(Virgin's Bower.) Class 13. Order 7. A genus of about 30 species, distributed over the world. Flowers white and pale blue.

MENTAL BEAUTY.

To later summer's fragrant breath
Clematis' feathery garlands dance,
And graceful there her fillets weaves.

Smith.

SENTIMENT.

Beauty has gone; but yet her mind is still
As beautiful as ever; still the play
Of light around her lips has every charm
Of childhood in its freshness.

Percival.

ANSWER.

The days of youthful friendship,
When heart to heart is lightly bound
In rosy wreaths that bind them round,
More beautiful than strong;

And, even in breaking, scatter flowers,
The rapid growth of sunny hours,

That heal their wounds ere long.

But dearer things than these do lie
Within our mortal grasp and earth
Hath not a moment from our birth,
The cradle to the sod,

Like that, when freed from passion's sway,

The mind rejects a feebler stay,

And rests its hopes on God.

Mrs. Wells.

COLUMBINE.

Aquilegia.

Class 13. Order 5. A genus of six species; found in Siberia and Europe, and from Canada to Carolina. Flowers

red, purple, blue, white, etc.

DESERTION.

The Columbine in tawny often taken,
Is then ascribed to such as are forsaken.

Browne.

SENTIMENT.

How I have loved thee! O, recall
Those past delicious hours,
Which made me happy as a bird,
In its sweet home of flowers:
And thou wast all my happiness,
My love-my joy-my pride!
Thou know'st I had no other joy,
And none to love beside.
Then plighted we our nuptial troth,
That it might never change,
Through all the cares and ills of earth,
That other hearts estrange.

And thus through long-long years-but why
Call back the visions flown?

They parted as the wave glides on-
They died as stars go down.

I will not wake those thoughts again,
The hopes like meteor-glows-

What now,

alas! are all to me?

Dreams! dreams of broken vows!

Miller.

Flowers, shrinking from the chilly night,

Droop and shut up; but with fair morning's touch, Rise on their stems, all open and upright.

Montague.

SENTIMENT.

O! there is one affection which no stain
Of earth can ever darken;-when two find,
The softer and the manlier, that a chain
Of kindred taste has fastened mind to mind;
"T is an attraction from all sense refined;
The good can only know it; 'tis not blind,
As love is unto baseness; its desire

Is but with hands entwined to lift our being higher.

Percival.

COREOPSIS, ARKANSA. Class 19. Order 3. An

Coreopsis tinctoria.

American genus of about 30 species. Flowers in June, and continues in flower till autumn. Flowers yellow.

ALWAYS CHEERFUL.

The Coreopsis, cheerful as the smile

That brightens on the cheek of youth, and sheds A gladness o'er the aged.

SENTIMENT.

Anonymous.

The world is bright before thee,
Its summer flowers are thine;
Its calm blue sky is o'er thee,
Thy bosom pleasure's shrine;
And thine the sunbeam given
To nature's morning hour,
Pure, warm, as when from heaven
It burst on Eden's bower.

There is a song of sorrow,
The death-dirge of the gay,
That tells, ere dawn of morrow,
These charms may melt away,
That sun's bright beam be shaded,
That sky be blue no more,
The summer flowers be faded,
And youth's warm promise o'er.

Believe it not-though lonely
Thy evening home may be,
Though beauty's bark can only
Float on a summer's sea;
Though time thy bloom is stealing,
There's still beyond his art
The wild-flower wreath of feeling,
The sunbeam of the heart.

Halleck.

CowSLIP, AMERICAN.
Dodecatheon, media.

Class 5. Order 1. A beauti-
ful flower, yellow and white.
May be found from Maine to
Missouri.

WINNING GRACE.

Smiled like a knot of Cowslips on the cliff.

SENTIMENT.

The rose its blushes need not lend,
Nor yet the lily with them blend,
To captivate my eyes:

Give me a cheek the heart obeys,
And, sweetly mutable, displays

Its feelings as they rise;

Features, where pensive, more than gay,
Save when a rising smile doth play,
The sober thoughts you see;
Eyes that all soft and tender seem,
And kind affections round them beam,
But most of all on me;

A form, though not of finest mould,
Where yet a something you behold
Unconsciously doth please;
Manners all graceful without art,
That to each look and word impart
A modesty and ease.

Blair.

Frisbie.