214 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



MISANTHROPY. 



Fullers Teasel. — Dipsacus fullonum. 



" I am misanthropos, and hate mankind." 



Shakspeare. 



These unhappy dispositions are represented 

 in floral emblems by the prickly head of the 

 dipsacus, a plant so disagreeable to animals 

 in general, that even the ass refuses it. The 

 conical receptacle of this plant becomes the 

 harbour of earwigs, as the head of a misan- 

 thrope becomes the receptacle of terrible an- 

 tipathies. 



The singularly rough heads of the teasel are 

 useful in raising the nap upon woollen cloths, 

 but the head of a misanthrope is as useless 

 as an ear of blighted corn. 



" His only scope 

 Was to be held a misanthrope ; 

 This into gen'ral odium drew him." 



Swift, 



