60 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



Afterthoughts are good when properly used, 

 but bad when 



" Afterthought, and idle care. 



And doubts of motley hue, and dark despah ; 



Suspicions, and fantastical surmise ; 



And jealousy, suffus'd with jaundice in her eyes. 



Discolouring all she view'd " 



Dryden's Fables. 



AGITATION. 



Moving Plant. — Hedysarum gyraus, 



*' Where dwells this sov'reign arbitrary soul. 

 Which does the human animal controul. 

 Inform each part, and agitate the whole ?" 



Blackmore . 



There is not a greater phenomenon in the 

 history of plants than is exhibited in this na- 

 tive of the banks of the Ganges. 



It is difficult to account for the voluntary 

 motion of the leaves of this plant, which does 



