Those other plants have all their seeds; and those
More plants, again, successively enclose.
Thus ev'ry single berry that we find,
Has really in itself whole forests of its kind.
Empire and wealth one acorn may dispense,
By fleets to sail a thousand ages hence;
Each myrtle-seed includes a thousand groves,
Where future bards may warble forth their loves."
[28] "On June 5th, 1849, a man and his son, a lad aged 14 years, left Noss to fish, and when five miles out at sea, no vessel being in sight, they both simultaneously became aware of a hot offensive stream of air passing over them. It was so decided, that the crab pots were examined to discover if it were from them, but it did not, and five minutes after the father's attention was directed to the boy, who was vomiting and purging."—Dr. Roe on the Cholera at Plymouth, Med. Gaz. Aug. 24th, 1850.
[29] Linnæus remarked that Erigeron Canadense was introduced into gardens near Paris from North America. The seeds had been carried by the wind, and this plant was in the course of a century spread over all France, Italy, Sicily and Belgium.