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 " 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, 7 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 |