1. Setis rigidis aspersus.-LINNEUS.

2. Beset with stiff bristles. Since we can

not find significant English terms for all the numerous varieties of pubescence, it is perhaps best to use the Latin terms where we can. Thus hirsute and hispid are preferable to shaggy and bristly; rough with hairs, hirtas, is nearly the same as hirsutus, and implies hairs stiffer than in pilosus.-MARTYN.

3. Covered with strong fragile bristles, or prickles, but whese roots are only superficial, so as to strip off with the rind.-BERKEN

HOUT.

4. Bristly; and also hirtus or pilosus, hairy.SMITH.

5. Not in LAMARK, or BRISSEAU-MIRBEL.

XXXIV. SCABROUS, ROUGH, RUGGED (scaber), rough with small prominent or hooked joints, as Rudbeckia lacineata. Vide Nos. XXXIX. XL. XLI. XLII. XLIII.

SCABER, rough.

1. Punctis eminentibus rigidiusculis exas. peratus. LINN ÆUS.

2. Scabrous, or rugged, something like shagreen. MARTYN.

3. Scabby, rough with tubercles, opposed to glaber-BERKENHOUT.

4. Rough to the touch from any little rigid inequalities, opposed to lavis.--SMITH,

5. Apre, rude, lorsqu'elle est chargée de points rudes, saillans, et accrochans.-LA

MARK.

XXXV. STRIATED, STREAKED (striatus), marked with hollow channels, running in straight lines, as with the Arum maculatum.

TOMENTOSUS, from tomentum, down, nap, @otton, or flocks, from TEMNO, to cut, being the fine cuttings or shavings, or as others think from TUMEO, to swell, being used to stuff pillows and beds. Strictly speaking, tomen

tum is short wool that is not carded and spun.

1. Villis intertextis vix conspicuis tegitur, ergo sæpius albidus; uti plantæ marinæ et campestres ventis expositæ.-LINNEUS.

2. Tomentose, which if translated, is downy, happy, cottony, or flocky, is applied to stems, when they are covered with hairs so interwoven as scarcely to be discernible, and is a species of pubescence, usually white, as found on sea plants, and such as grow in exposed situations.-MARTYN.

3. Covered with whitish down, whose hairs are interwoven, and hardly distinguishable.BERKENHOUT.

4. Downy, very soft to the touch.-SMITH. 5. Drapée, les poils forment une couverture semblable à du drap.-BRISSEAU-MIR

BEL

NOTES.

LANATUS, from lana, wool.

1. Quasi tela araneæ indutus.-LINNEUS. 2. Woolly, having a covering resembling a spider's web, composed of hairs curling spon taneously.-MARTYN.

3. Covered as with a spider's web.-BER

KENHOUT.

4. Woolly.-SMITH.

5. Laineuse, lanugineuse; les poil sont semblable a de la laine.-BRISSEAU-MIRBEL.

XLI. VILLOSE, VILLOUS (vil losus), covered with soft hairs, a less degree than the last.

NOTES.

1. Pilis mollibus pubescens.-IANNEUS.

2. Pubescent, or covered with soft hairs.MARTYN.

3. Covered with pubes, one of the seven kinds of fulcra. It includes pili, lana, barba, tomentum, striga, setæ, hami, glochides

1. HAIRS (pili.), hairs not so stiff as the next term. Vide No. XXXII.

2. BRISTLES (sete), or strong round hairs. Vide No. XXXIII.

3. BEARD (barba), parallel hair. 4. FLOCK (tomentum), interwoven villous hairs not individually distinct. Vide No. XXXIX.

5. WooL (lana), the finest curled hairs. Vide No. XL.

6. Hooks (hami), sharp crooked points. Vide No. XXXIV.

7. BARBS (glochides), sharp straight points. Vide No. XXXIV.

8. GLANDS (glandula), having the structure of glands. Vide No. XXXVIII.

NOTES.

PUBESCENS, from pubes, down.

1. Pubescentia est armatura planta quâ ab externis injuris defenditur--LINNÆUS.

2. Covered with some sort of pubescence. Glands seem to be improperly enumerated by Linnæus as a sort of pubescence.-MARTYN.

sitas. In the Philosophia Botanica, stimuli, aculei, furce, and spine, are also numbered among the pubes, but Linnæus has since ranged them under arma.-BERKENHOUT. 4. Pubescente, couverte d'un léger duvet-BRISSEAU-MIRBEL.

LXX. PRICKLY (aculeatus), armed with prickles, the eighth species of armature, which arises from the bark.

NOTES.

ACULEATUS, from aculeus, a prickle.

1. Prickly.-MARTYN.

2. Beset with stiff sharp prickles, between hispidus and spinosas, furnished with aculei BERKENHOUT.

3. Pourvue d'acquillon.-BRISSEAU-MAR

BEL.

5. Aculeus is a prickle like a thorn, but arising from the bark only; mucro pungens cortice tantum affixus.-LINNEUS.

[To be continued.]

MAXIMS FOR THE CONDUCT OF LIFE, AD

DRESSED IN LETTERS TO HIS SONS.

"OBSERVE and mark, as well as you may, what is the temper and disposition of those persons, whose speeches you hear, whether they be grave, scrious, sober, wise, dis

"If any person report unto you some injury done you by another, either in words or deeds, do not be over hasty in believing it, uor suddenly angry with the person so accused; for possibly it may be false or mistaken; and, how unseemly a thing will it be, when your credulity and passion, shall per

commonly are like themselves, and will deserve your attention and observation. But if they be light, impertinent, vain, passionate persons, their speech is, for the most part, according; and the best advantage that you will gain by their speech, is but thereby to learn their dispositions, to discern their failings, and to make yourselves the more cautions, both in your couservation with them, and in your own speech and deportment, for, in the unseemliness of their speech, you may better discern and avoid the like in yourselves. "If any person, that you do not very well know to be a person of truth, sobriety, and weight, relate strange stories, be not too ready or easy to believe them, nor report them after him; and yet (unless he be one of your familiar acquaintance) be not too forward to contradict him; or if the necessity of the occasion require you to declare your opinion of what is so reported, let it be modestly and gently, not too bluntly or coarsely; by this means, on the one side, you shall avoid being abused by your too much credulity; on the other side, you shall avoid quarrels, and distaste.

"If any man speak any thing to the disadvantage or reproach of one that is absent, be not too ready to believe it, only observe and remember it; for it may be, it is not true, or it is not all true, or some other circumstances were mingled with it, which might give the business reported a justification, or at least an allay, an extenuation, or a reasonable excuse: in most actions, if that which is bad alone, or seems to be so, be reported, omitting that which is good, or the circumstances that accompany it, any action may be easily misrepresented; be not too hasty therefore to believe a reproach, till you know the truth, and the whole truth.

do wrong to him that hath done you none; or, at least, when the bottom and truth of the accusation is known, you will be ashamed of your passion? believe not a report till the party accused be heard; and if the report be true, yet be not transported either with passion, hasty anger, or revenge, for that will be your own torment and perturbation; ever, when a person is accused, or reported to have injured you, before you give yourself leave to be angry, think with yourself, why should I be angry before I am certain it is true? or, if it be true, how can I tell how much I should be angry till I know the whole matter? though, it may be, he hath done ine wrong, yet possibly it is not so much as it is represented, or it was done by mistake, or, it may be, he is sorry for it: I will not be angry till I know there be cause, and if there be cause, yet I will not be angry, till I know the whole cause, for till then, ifI must be angry at all, yet I know not how much to be angry; it may be it is not worth my anger, or, if it be, it may be it deserves but a little. This will keep your mind and carriage, upon such occasions, in a due temper and order; and will disappoint mali

cious or officious tale bearers.

"If a man, whose integrity you do not very well know, makes you great and extraordinary professions and promises, give him as kind thanks as may be, but give not much credit to it cast about with yourself what may be the reason of this wonderful kindness; it is twenty to one but you will find something that he aims at besides kindness to you: it may be he hath something to beg or buy of you, or to seli to you, or some such bargain that speaks out, at least, his own advantage, and not yours; and if he serve his turn upon you, or