. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. ers has found many students, than whom notone read them more deeply than that mikl spirit (Shelley) who sang of thesensitive plant, and in wondrous music foreshadowed his own misdirectedgenius and his melancholy fate. That martyr to sensibility, Keats, wholonged to feel the flowers growing ahovc him, drew the strong insjiirationof his volant^ muse from those delicate creations which exhibit the passageof inorganic matter into life; and other poets will have their sensibilitiesawakened by the ajsthetics^ of flowers, and find a mirror


. The first [-fifth] reader of the school and family series. ers has found many students, than whom notone read them more deeply than that mikl spirit (Shelley) who sang of thesensitive plant, and in wondrous music foreshadowed his own misdirectedgenius and his melancholy fate. That martyr to sensibility, Keats, wholonged to feel the flowers growing ahovc him, drew the strong insjiirationof his volant^ muse from those delicate creations which exhibit the passageof inorganic matter into life; and other poets will have their sensibilitiesawakened by the ajsthetics^ of flowers, and find a mirror of truth in the crys-tal dew-drop which clings so lovingly to the purple violet.—Hunts Poetryof Science. PsY-cnijL-o-OY, the doctrine of the mindl yT^s-TniiT-icfl, the science which treats ofor Boul, as distinct from the body. the beautiful; the philosophy of the fine 2 VO-LANT, flying; active ; airy. | arts. 172 WILLSONs FIFTU EEADEB. Paiit IV. LES. XII.—LABIATE AND TRUMPET-FLOWER FAMILIES. [ICxoGENOus or ; Angioapernis; Trumpet-flower Family. Labiate Family 1. Eccreviocarpuslo7igiflorus,Loni:;-{[owQTei cccremocarpus, xiii. 2, or., 6 f., , Peru. 2. Cheloiie eentranthi/olia, California trumpet-flower, xiii. 2, sc, 7 f., , Cal. 3. Bignonia grandiflora. Large bignonia, xiii. ., or., 30-100 f. (cultivated), , . 4. Jliqnonia cchinnta, xiii. 2, pk., 80 f, Guiana. 5. Catal2)a cordifoUa^ Common eatalpa, ii. 1, w. and y., 20 f., \u., N. Am. 6. Salvia fuVaens, Scarlet salvia, ii. 1,fc., 5 f., , Mexico. 7. LavanihUa stoechrtx, French lavender, xiii. 1, Ii., 18 in. , S. Europe. 8. Marubium vulgarc^ Common horehound, xiii. 1, w., 2 f., , N. Thyvixts scri};illuIII^ Wild thyme, xiii. 1, pu., 3 in., \u., Europe. 10. Thijmuavulgaris^ Garden tliyme, xiii. 1, pu., 12 in., , cultivated, . 1. The plants of the Labiate family, -vvliich number nearlytwenty-four hundred species, are easily distinguished


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