1.2 EH OVWVES OF CAaANTo I.

The proud OsyY.1s flies his angry fair,

Tzvo houſes hold the faſhionable pair.

(ppapieis ! 74 7: I(118 With ſtrange deformity PLANTAGo treads, en) A monſter-birth! and lifts his hundred heads; u WDR

which black-lead pencils are covered, is not liable to be eaten

by worms. See Miln's Bot. Di4. art. conifere. The gates of dt. Peter's church at Rome, which had laſted from the time of Conſtantine to that of Pope Eugene the fourth, that is to ſay, What eleven hundred years, were of Cypreſs, and had in that time ſuf-

tered no decay. According to Thucydides, the Athenians bu-

ried the bodies of their heroes in cofiins of Cypreſs, as being not men ... 7 1 vd 15 wen. 4'( lubject to decay. A ſimilar durability bas alſo been aſcribed to| fh

x|

Cedar. Thus Horace, ohe

ſperamus carmina fin 71 d

Poſſe Linenda cedro&[Ew jervanda cupreſa. Opi: 75- 1wo houſes. The males and females are on bien different plants. There are many inſtances on record, where fe- N male plants have been impregnated at very great diſtance from their male; the duſt diſcharged from the anthers is very light, hey ſmall, and copious, ſo that it may ſpread very wide in the atmo- ea

ſphere, and be carried to the diſtant piſtils, without the ſuppo-

ſition of any particular attration; theſe plants reſemble ſome| inſects, as the ants, and cochineal inſect, of which the males'

have wings, but not the female.

Plantago. 1. 77. Roſea. Roſe-Plantain. In this vegetable