generic character they all agree: the

calyx has a three leaved perianth;

the leaflets

are

deciduous, petal

shaped, ovate and concave: there aro

nine petals in the corolla, these are

oblong, concave and narrowest at their

insertion `the filaments

are numerous

in the stamens; these are short and

acuminate, compressed and inserted

belons the germs into the common receptacls of the pistils: on the

margin of the kilaments on each

side, the anthers are fastened, and

these are linear; the pistil contains

many ovate, oblong germs, which are

twa-celled, and cover a club-shaped

receptacle. The styles which are

extremely short, are contorted and re

curved. The stigmas

stigmas are villose,

and longitudinal of the style. The

pericarp has an ovate strobile, covered

with compressed capsules, which are

the

seams

of each side of the strobile.

And yet this is what those foreign barbarians called simple definition! Were the English plan of education any thing like the above, is it to be imagined that the wealthy Irish Absentees would

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reside as they do in this country, in order to superintend the mental improvement of their offspring, and be ambitious of having their children brought up here, and trained to resemble, as much as as possible, this

elegant people?

I have before intimated that the love of letters is, in England, a sort of universal passion; and this is strictly true. Cheap and correct editions of useful, and none but useful works, are perpetually coming forth the general good sense of the people here would treat with disdain the idea of encourag ing the printing and re-printing of costly volumes, the absurd and grotesque productions of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; stuffed with fear. ful impressions of engravings on wood,

excuted in the infancy of the art: something like this

or fooleries of a similar kind; expensive baubles to amuse great children,

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thrown off in tall copies, and short copies, on royal and super-royal paper; in order to gratify the prurient and sickly fancies of old dotards and young simpletons of ample fortunes, and per