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HAWKWEED. Hieracmnu 



Natural Order Composiloi Scmijiomdos(c. Cichoraccce, 

 Juss : a penus of the Sijngenesia Polygamia Mqua- 

 lis Class. 



" Dost thou love hawking ? Thou hast liawks will soar 

 Above the morning- lark," 



Shakspeare. 



We present the Hawkweed as the emblem of 

 quick-sightedness, because the Greeks gave it 

 the name of le^oLxm, Accipitrma, from a belief 

 that hawks sharpened their sight with the juice 

 of these plants, from which cause it is also called 

 Hawkweed in English, and Eperviere and Herbc 

 a VEperuer in French, 



Coles, in his History of Plants, dated 1657, 

 says, " I shall treat of this plant as appropriated 

 to the eyes ; and Dale tells us, that taken in- 

 wardly, the Hawkweed sharpens the sight, and 

 expels black bile." 



L'Estrange says, " Nothing so fierce but love 

 will soften, nothing so sharp- sighted in other 



