Flora's Lexicon/Bee Orchis
EE ORCHIS. Orchis. Class 19, Syngenesia. Order: Monogynia. This plant is singularly beautiful in its appearance, which so much resembles the bee, that it is frequently mistaken for one resting on the plant. It commonly grows near woods, and in the open meadows. The most successful method of cultivation is by choosing a soil and situation as natural to them as possible, and by suffering the grass to grow around them.
ERROR.
Well boots it the thick-mantled leas
To traverse: if boon nature grant,
To crop the insect seeming plant,
The vegetable Bee; or nigh
Of kin, the long-horn’d Butterfly,
White, or his brother purple pale,
Scenting alike the evening gale;
The Satyr flower, the pride of Kent,
Of Lizard-form, and goat-like scent.
To traverse: if boon nature grant,
To crop the insect seeming plant,
The vegetable Bee; or nigh
Of kin, the long-horn’d Butterfly,
White, or his brother purple pale,
Scenting alike the evening gale;
The Satyr flower, the pride of Kent,
Of Lizard-form, and goat-like scent.
Bisuop Mant.
O hateful Error, Melancholy's child!
Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
The things that are not? O error, soon conceived,
Thou never com’st unto a happy birth,
But kill’st the mother that engender’d thee.
Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
The things that are not? O error, soon conceived,
Thou never com’st unto a happy birth,
But kill’st the mother that engender’d thee.
Shakspeare.
When people once are in the wrong,
Each line they add is much too long;
Who fastest walks, but walks astray,
Is only furthest from his way.
Each line they add is much too long;
Who fastest walks, but walks astray,
Is only furthest from his way.
Prior.