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4 1. OVZEiSE OF CARTO Ls The virtuous pair, in milder regions born, Dread the rude blaſt of Autumn s icy morn; Bound the chill fair he folds his crimſon veſt,

And claſps the timorous beauty to his breaſt.

Thy love, CALLITRICHE, 7wo Virgins ſhare, Smit with thy ſtarry eye and radiant hair;-- On the green margin ſits the youth, and laves His floating train of trefles in the waves;

Sees his fair features paint the ſtreams that paſs,

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And bends for ever o er the watery

f2male inhabit each flower. It is brought from between the tropics to our hot-houſes, and bears a beautiful crimſon flower;

i; 2 2% the ſeeds are uſed as ſhot by the Indians, and are ſtrung for

prayer-beads in ſome Catholic countries.

Callitriche. 1. 45. Fine-hair, Stargraſs. One male and two females inhabit each flower. The upper leaves grow in form of a ſtar, whence it is called Stellaria Aquatica by Ray and others; its ſtems and leaves float far on the water, and are oſten

ſo matted together, as to bear a perſon walking on them. The

male ſometimes lives in a ſeparate fower.