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of the infusion, in cases of infection, is more in the vinegar 

 than in the flower infused in it. It has been asserted that 

 the sting of a wasp, or a bee, is effectually cured by rub- 

 bing the part affected with a Marygold-flower. 



Linnaeus has observed, that the Marygold is usually 

 open from nine in the morning to three in the afternoon. 

 The circumstance attracted early notice, and on this ac- 

 count the plant has been termed soliscqua (Sun-follower); 

 and solis sponsa, Spouse of the Sun. 



There is an allusion to this daily closing of the Mary- 

 gold in the poems of Chatterton : 



" The mary-budde that shutteth with the light." 



Another in the Pastorals of W. Browne : 



" But, maiden, see the day is waxen olde. 

 And gins to shut in with the marygold." 



And a most beautiful one in Shakspeare's Winter Tale : 



" The marygold, that goes to bed with the sun. 

 And with him rises weeping." 



And again in Cymbeline : 



" Hark ! hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings 

 And Phoebus 'gins arise. 

 His steeds to water at those springs 



On chaliced flowers that lies. 

 And winking marybuds begin 



To ope their golden eyes 

 With every thing that pretty bin. 

 My lady sweet arise. 

 Arise, arise." 



There are many varieties of the Garden Marygold; 

 one of which, the Proliferous, called by Gerarde the Fruit- 

 ful Marygold, is, as he says, " called by the vulgar sort of 

 women, Jack-an-apes-on-horseback." 



Although this Marygold is generally yellow, there is a 



