Try their thin wings, and dance in the warm beam
That waked them into life. Even the green trees
Partake the deep contentment as they bend

To the soft winds; the sun from the blue sky
Looks in, and sheds a blessing on the scene;
Scarce less the cleft-born wild-flower seems to enjoy
Existence, than the wingèd plunderer

That seeks its sweets."

Professor Burnett tells us that there are some famous old lime-trees, a variety of Tilia platyphylla, growing in the churchyard of Seidlitz, in Bohemia, the broad leaves of which are hooded; and the peasants assure you that they have miraculously borne hooded leaves ever since the monks of a neighbouring convent were hanged upon them.

The Rev. C. A. Johns, in his work on the Forest Trees of Britain, mentions several remarkable limetrees as having been described by various authors. "At Chalouse, in Switzerland," says this writer, "there stood one, in Evelyn's time, under which was a bower composed of its branches, capable of containing 300 persons sitting at ease; it had a fountain, set about with many tables formed only of the boughs, to which they ascend by steps, all kept so accurately and so very thick, that the sun never looked into it." The same author mentions another famous lime at Neustadt, in Wirtemberg, which gave a distinctive name to the town. Its huge limbs were supported by numerous stone columns, bearing inscriptions. This tree was still in existence, Loudon tells us in his "Arboretum," in 1838, the trunk being eighteen feet in diameter, and beneath its broad shadow the people of Neustadt were then, like the men

3. I. grandifólia (Broad-leaved, Downy Lime-tree). --Nectaries none; leaves downy, especially beneath, with solitary hairs; origin of the veins woolly; young branches and leaf-stalks hairy; fruit woody. Plant perennial. This tree, though usually enumerated among our British plants, has less claims than either of the other species to be considered as a native. It grows, however, in several woods and hedges, as in those about Edinburgh, flowering in June and July.

ORDER XVIII. HYPERICINEÆ.-ST. JOHN'S WORT TRIBE.

Sepals 4 or 5, not falling off, unequal, often fringed with black dots; petals of the same number as the sepals, sometimes unequal-sided, twisted when in bud, often bordered with black dots; stamens numerous, united at the base into three or more sets; ovary single; styles 3-5; fruit, a capsule or berry, composed of several valves and cells, the valves curved inwards; seeds minute, numerous. This Order consists of herbs or shrubs, most of them having opposite leaves. Their flowers are chiefly yellow, and they abound in a resinous juice, the greater number being glandular. Both leaves and petals are generally dotted with black, are viscid, mostly bitter, and slightly astringent. Some species are used as febrifuges, or as lotions; and one is reputed in Brazil to be an antidote against the bite of serpents. Many afford a good yellow dye; and one of the St.