WHITE VIOLET. 



WHITE VIOLET.— Candour. 



Candour takes precedence, in order of time, of Modesty. 

 The White Violet is as if the purple one were invested with 

 the robe of innocence. 



THE WHORTLE OR BILBERRY {yaccinium myrtillus).— 



Treachery. 



" Nor lacked, for more delight on that warm day, 

 Our table, small parade of garden fruits. 

 And Whortle-berries from the mountain side." — 



Wordsworth. 



^NOMAiJS, father of the lovely Hippodamia, had Myr- 

 tillus, son of Mercury, for a shield-bearer. Being- proud of 

 this, he required that all who aspired to the hand of his 

 daughter, should enter the lists with him in the chariot race. 

 Pelops, anxious to secure Hippodamia, promised a high 

 reward to Myrtillus if he would take away the bolt from his 

 master's chariot wheels. Myrtillus took the bribe : the 

 chariot was overthrown, and CEnomaiis killed ; but with his 

 expiring breath he prayed that the traitor should be thrown 

 into the sea. On his body being brought to the shore for 

 that purpose, Mercury changed it into the shrub which 

 bears his name ; that shrub resembles a little Myrtle. It is 

 the Whortleberry. It bears an abundance of purple berries, 

 which are juicy, but somewhat insipid. 



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