. Evenings at home, or, The juvenile budget opened : consisting of a variety of miscellaneous pieces for the instruction and amusement of young persons . hen daisies pied, and violets lady-smocks all silver cuckow-buds of yellow hue,To paint the meadows with delight. T. They are Shakspeares. You see he givesthe name of cuckow-bud to some other flower, ayellow one, which appears at the same still earher than this time, walls and hedge-banks are enlivened by a very small whiteflower, called whitlew-grass, which is one ofthis tribe. H. Is it easy to distinguish the p
. Evenings at home, or, The juvenile budget opened : consisting of a variety of miscellaneous pieces for the instruction and amusement of young persons . hen daisies pied, and violets lady-smocks all silver cuckow-buds of yellow hue,To paint the meadows with delight. T. They are Shakspeares. You see he givesthe name of cuckow-bud to some other flower, ayellow one, which appears at the same still earher than this time, walls and hedge-banks are enlivened by a very small whiteflower, called whitlew-grass, which is one ofthis tribe. H. Is it easy to distinguish the plants of thisfamily from one another 1 T. Not very easy, for the general similarityof the flowers is so great, that little distinctioncan be drawn from them. The marks of thespecies are chiefly taken from the form andmanner of growth of the seed-vessel, and we willexamine some of them by the descriptions in abook of botany. There is one very remarkableseed-vessel, which probably you have observedin the garden. It is a perfectly round large flatpouch, which after it has shed its seed remainson the stalk, and looks like a thin white blad- l$ry %f~f^. CRUCIFORM PLANTS. Sb7 der. The plant bearing it is commonly calledhonesty. H. O, I know it very well. It is put intowinter flower-pots. T. True. So much, then, for the tetradjna-mous or cruciform-flowered plants. You cannotwell mistake them for any other class, if youremark the six chives, four of them, generallybut not always, longer than the two others ; thesingle pistil changing either into a long pod or around pouch containing the seeds ; the four op-posite petals of the flower, and four leaves of thecalyx. You may safely make a salad of theyoung leaves wherever you find them ; the worstthey can do to you is to bite your tongue. THE NATIVE VILLAGE. Scene—A scattered Village, almost hidden tvithTrees. Enter Harford and Beaumont. Harford. There is the place. This is thegreen on which I played many a day with mycompanions ; there
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