QUOTATIONS AND NOTES.
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FROM THE FRENCH.
A free translation of a favourite French song.
"Un jour me demandoit Hortense
Ou se trouve le tendre amour?"
TO AN OLD TREE.
The philosophy of these few lines may not be very correct, since mosses are known to injure the stems and branches of trees to which they adhere; but the images of Poetry cannot always be exactly adjusted to objects of Natural History.
Line 4.
fronds of studded moss.
The foliage, if it may be so called, of this race of plants, is termed fronds; and their flowers, or fructi-
