The chaffy scales of the calyx in Xeranthemum, and in a species of Dianthus, and the glume in some alpine grasses, and the scales of the ament in the salix rosea, rose willow, grow into leaves; and produce other kinds of monsters.

'Tis generally true; for as he observes, Priorem flammam novus ignis extrudit; et ea multorum natura, ut praesentes maxime ament, one fire drives out another; and such is women's weakness, that they love commonly him that is present.

For either, as he follows it, you must allow them concubines, or suffer them to marry, for scarce shall you find three priests of three thousand, qui per aetatem non ament, that are not troubled with burning lust.

Let thy heart, which dwelleth in the mountain of Ament, be content, for thy son Horus is stablished upon thy throne.

"Praise be unto thee, O R[=a], thou exalted Power, who dost enter into the habitations of Ament, behold [thy] body is Temu. 12.

Let thy heart which is in the mountain of Ament [Footnote: i.e., the underworld.] be content, for thy son Horus is established upon thy throne.

At the corner by the stile, beyond which the willows were splendid against the blue with silvery aments and golden pollen, they turned by mutual impulse and retraced their steps.

"Here," said her governess, reaching from the top bar of the road-fence for the lowest branch of a willow tree; "examine this catkin for yourself, and I will tell you what my Botany says of it: 'An ament, or catkin, is an assemblage of flowers composed of scales and stamens or pistils arranged along a common thread-like receptacle, as in the chestnut and willow.

The ament is common to forest-trees, as the oak and chestnut, and is also found upon the willow and poplar.'

'When Spring has closed her delicate flowers,' says a bright writer, 'and the multitudes that crowd around the footsteps of May have yielded their places to the brighter host of June, the willow scatters the golden aments that adorned it, and appears in the deeper garniture of its own green foliage.'

"Yes, catkins, or aments.

The broad leaves, of a very rich green, grow on stems nearly as long as themselves, and the flowering aments are of a light-red color.

The tree is so called from the resemblance of the long ament, before opening, to the beads of a necklace.

But the flowers of this species are only small greenish aments.

The aments, too, with their light silvery-green tint, glisten beautifully on the darker leaves.