256 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



QUICK-SIGHTEDNESS. 



H A w K \v E E D . — Hieracium . 



This plant is made the emblem of quick- 

 sightedness, because it was formerly given to 

 hawks to sharpen their sight, and from hence 

 its name originated. 



It is observed by Locke, that " nobody will 

 deem the quick-sighted amongst them to have 

 very enlarged views in ethicks." 



RARITY, OR EXTRAORDINARY 



Mandrake. — Atropa Mandragora. 

 " the mandrake's flow'rs 



Whose root shews half a man, whose juice 

 With madness strikes." 



Columella. 



In symbolical language the mandrake is 

 made the emblem of any thing rare or extra- 



