192 FLORA'S INTERPRETER. 



R.UE. C7os*10. Order I. Indigenous to Eu- 



J?if/ rr^nwenleno rope, but naturalized in America. The 



Ruta graveolens. w Q' fl hcrb haa an ncri(J pungcnt 8meU 



Flowera are a dull yellow. 



DISDAIN. 



Here did she drop a tear; here in this place 

 I '11 set a bank of Rue, sour herb of grace. 



Shakspeare. 



SENTIMENT. 



I am one, 



Who finds within me a nobility 

 That spurns the idle pratings of the great, 

 And their mean boast of what their fathers were, 

 While they themselves are fools effeminate, 

 The scorn of all who know the worth of mind 

 And virtue. 



PtrcivaL 



