Ay, well-how well!-do I remember still
The wondrous beauty of her hectic blush;
The unearthly lustre of her sparkling eyes;
Her pallid brows, by death's cold finger traced;
And the long glance of tender, speechless love
Fix'd on our faces, even unto the last,
When her dear voice already was in heaven!

HARRIET.

When summer brings the roses back to us,
And their rich fragrance loads the golden air,
Like incense offered up from earth to heaven,
And birds are all abroad-I think of her

Who walked the earth-a thing of light and hope,
Loving all nature-feeling it was bliss

To live among bright, odour-breathing flowers,
And listen to the music of the woods-

I think of her within the narrow grave,

To whom, nor sunshine, nor the breath of flowers,
Nor song of birds, can ever come again.

The Rose is of the class Icosandria, and order Polygynia in the Linnæan system, and belongs to the order Rosacea in the Natural system.

THE CUCKOO FLOWER.

Cardamine; L. Le cresson; Fr. Die gauchblume; Ger. Schuimblad; Dutch. Cardamindo; Ital. Cardamina; Sp. Lugobüi Kres; Russ. Rzezucha polna; Pol.

"When daisies pied, and violets blue,

And lady's smocks all silver white,

And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue,

Do paint the meadows with delight."

SHAKSPEARE.

THE flower which we have here chosen to name the Cuckoo-flower is one of the earliest of those numerous plants which, blooming at the season of the cuckoo's arrival amongst us, have received that distinction, in something like the same manner in which they may be called Spring-flowers. It is also commonly known as Lady's Smock, because, says Sir James Smith, where it grows profusely, it presents the appearance, at a little distance, of a quantity of linen laid out to bleach; it is more properly common Bitter-cress. Its flowering tops have been recommended in medicine, and at one time it enjoyed a high reputation for its medicinal properties, but its efficacy is very doubtful, and it is now entirely excluded from the list of materia medica.

The Cuckoo-flower makes its appearance in April, and is in its most perfect state about the middle of May. In works on scientific botany this species is stated to be an inhabitant of moist meadows; but it does not confine itself to such situations, for we have noticed it growing abundantly on the banks of streams, and frequently with the lower part of the stem submerged, and sometimes the flower alone visible above

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