FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



OBSTACLE. 



Ox-eye. — Buphthalurum. 



'' ■di- 



Obstacles sharpen wishes ; and it may gene- 

 rally be observed, that where reasoning can- 

 not succeed, they have no other effect than 

 that of forwarding what they were intended 

 to protract. 



OBSTINACY. 



Small Bindweed. — Convolvulus Arvensis. 



*' Convolvulus in streaked vases flush." 



Keals. 



" No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate." 



Pope. 



This humble plant is a most formidable 

 enemy to the husbandman, it being difficult 

 to dispossess it of the land it has once taken 



