he exclaimed inconsequently; then stopped and ran his transparent, heavily veined old hand over his forehead.

Here is the haunt of the lady-slipper, (cypripedium,) a shy, rare flower, like a little sack delicately veined, with a faint musky scent, and large-flapped leaves shading its flower.

Cousin Parnelia put one deeply veined, shrunken old hand on planchette and the other over her eyes and waited, her wrinkled, commonplace old face assuming a solemn expression of importance.

The leaves are heart-shaped and very finely veined, have sharply-serrated edges and are four or five inches long.

Beshrew me, lords, but in this jolly vein 'Twere pity but the prating fool were slain.

The veins start from either side of a single midrib (feather-veined or pinnately-veined), or they branch from a number of ribs which all start from the top of the petiole, like the fingers from the palm of the hand (palmately-veined).

This is of larger growth than D. rosea, with strongly reticulated leaves, that are prominently veined on the under sides, and much larger, almost white flowers.

I have looked Long for my secondbut it not appears; Yet not the less I joy that thou hast brooked Rich fruit of fair fame, and of mellow years, Thou wise old man, within whose saintly veins No drop of gall infects life's genial tide, Whose many-chambered human heart contains No room for hatred and no home for pride.

Jessie was awake to the finger-tips, her veins apulse with the flow of rushing rivers of life.

The Campbells intermarried with the Prestons, Breckenridges and other historic families, and their blood now runs in the veins of many of the noted men of the States south of the Potomac and Ohio.

" I bowed assent,and when the President spoke again with some depreciation of their productions, I made up my mouth to say, in courtly vein, "Man is the nobler growth your realms supply," when I recollected that that remark was too literally true to be complimentary to a State which made its chief business the growing of men and women for a distant market.