FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



DICTIONARY OF EMBLEMS 



ABSENCE. 



Wormwood . — A rtemisia A hsinthium . 



** She was wean'd ; I had then laid 

 Wormwood to my breast." 



Romeo and Juliet. 



We read in Watts's Logic, that '' Bitter is 

 an equivocal word ; there is bitter wormwood, 

 there are bitter words, there are bitter ene- 

 mies, and a bitter cold morning." And we 



