ONESTY, or SATIN FLOWER. Lunaria. Class 15, TETRADYNAMIA. Order: SILICULOSA. This pretty flower owes its valuable name to the nature of its singular seed-vessel, that honestly shows its number of seeds. Lunaria, the botanical name, is derived from Luna, the moon, in reference to the shape of its silique. Lunaria was formerly used for the most dishonest purposes,

An honest soul is like a ship at sea,

That sleeps at anchor when the ocean's calm;
But when she rages, and the wind blows high,
He cuts his way with skill and majesty.

BEAUMONT.

An honest man is still an unmoved rock,
Wash'd whiter, but not shaken with the shock;
Whose heart conceives no sinister device;
Fearless he plays with flames, and treads on ice.
DAVENPORT.

Take heed what you say, sir,

An hundred honest men! why if there were
So many i' th' city, 't were enough to forfeit
Their charter.

SHIRLEY.

Heav'n that made me honest, made me more
Than ever king did, when he made a lord.

The man who pauses on his honesty
Wants little of the villain.

ROWE.

MARTYN.

ONEYSUCKLE, or WOODBINE. Loni-
cera. Class 5, PENTANDRIA. Order: Mo-
NOGYNIA. The honeysuckle sometimes amo-
rously attaches its pliant branches to the
knotted trunk of an ancient oak, and amid
the rugged branches of that lordly tree,
The woodbines mix in amorous play,

And breathe their fragrant lives away.

It was said that this feeble tree, thus shooting into the air, would overtop the king of the forest; but, as if its efforts were unavailing, it soon recoiled, and with graceful negligence adorned its friendly supporter with elegant festoons and perfumed garlands.

BONDS OF LOVE.

That sweet honeysuckle, which

Is fair as fragrant.

The woodbine wild,

CARRINGTON.

That loves to hang, on barren boughs remote,
Her wreaths of flowery perfume.

Who rears his cot

MASON.

Deep in the rural shade, and wreaths around
His lattice the rath woodbine !

CARRINGTON.

Fair is thy level landscape, England, fair
As ever nature form'd! Away it sweeps,
A wide, a smiling prospect, gay with flowers,
And waving grass, and trees of amplest growth,
And sparkling rills, and rivers winding slow
Through all the smooth immense. Upon the eye
Arise the village and the village spire,

The clustering hamlet, and the peaceful cot
Clasp'd by the woodbine.

CARRINGTON.

OP. Humulus. Class 22, DICIA. Order: PENTANDRIA. This plant will grow only in rich soils. It is called lupulus by naturalists; and, according to Pliny, was so named because it grew among the willows; to them, by twining round and choking them up, it proved very destructive.

INJUSTICE.

Yes, a most notorious villain;

To see the sufferings of my fellow-creatures,
And own myself a man: to see our senators
Cheat the deluded people with a show

Of liberty, which yet they ne'er must taste of.
They say, by them our hands are free from fetters;
Yet whom they please they lay in basest bonds;
Bring whom they please to infamy and sorrow;
Drive us like wrecks down the rough tide of power,
Whilst no hold's left to save us from destruction:
All that bear this are villains, and I one,
Not to rouse up at the great call of nature,
And check the growth of these domestic spoilers,
That make us slaves, and tell us 't is our charter.
OTWAY.

Justice is lame, as well as blind, amongst us:
The laws, corrupted to their ends that make them,
Serve but for instruments of some new tyranny,
That every day starts up t' enslave us deeper.

Unheard, the injured orphans now complain;
The widow's cries address the throne in vain,
Causes unjudged disgrace the loaded file,
And sleeping laws the king's neglect revile.

OTWAY.

PRIOR.

ORSE CHESTNUT. Esculus Hippocastanum. Class 7, HEPTANDRIA. Order: MoNOGYNIA. In the beginning of spring, one rainy day is sufficient to cause this beautiful tree to cover itself with verdure. If it be planted alone, nothing surpasses the elegance of its pyramidal form, the beauty of its foliage, or the richness of its flowers, which sometimes make it appear as an immense lustre or chandelier, all covered with pearls. Fond of ostentation and richness, it covers with flowers the grass which it overshadows, and yields to the idler a most delightful shade. To the poor man it is of little service, supplying him with nothing more than a light and porous timber, and a bitter fruit. Naturalists and physicians have attributed to this child of Asia a thousand good qualities which it does not possess.

LUXURY.

It is a shame, that man, that has the seeds
Of virtue in him, springing unto glory,
Should make his soul degenerous with sin,
And slave to luxury; to drown his spirits
In lees of sloth; to yield up the weak day
To wine, to lust, and banquets.

MARMYON.

War destroys men, but luxury mankind
At once corrupts; the body and the mind.

CROWN.

Than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains.

Sofas 't was half a sin to sit upon,

MORE.

So costly were they; carpets, every stitch
Of workmanship so rare, they made you wish
You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.

BYRON.

OUSELEEK. Sempervivum Tectorum. Class 11, DODECANDRIA. Order: DODECAGYNIA. The Houseleek is made the emblem of vivacity, because it retains its vivacious nature even on the hot tiles of cottage roofs. In such situations it generally bespeaks the residence of some good old dame well skilled in simples, and reposing implicit faith in their efficacy.

VIVACITY.

The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green;
She runs, but hopes she does not run unseen.

POPE.

Where throngs of knights and barons bold,
In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold;
With store of ladies, whose bright eyes
Rain influence, and judge the prize
Of wit or arms, while both contend
To win her grace whom all commend.
There let Hymen oft appear
In saffron robe with taper clear,
And pomp and feast and revelry,
With mask and antique pageantry;
Such sights as youthful poets dream
On summer eves by haunted stream,
Then to the well-trod stage anon,
If Jonson's learned sock be on,
Or sweetest Shakspeare, Fancy's child,
Warble his native wood-notes wild.

MILTON.