FLOWERS 



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FLUORESCENCE 



Orange Blossom Marriage 



Oxalls Pangs of regret 



Palm Leaf Conquest 



Pansy Thoughts 



Poppy Oblivion 



Rose Love 



Rosemary Remembrance 



Rue Repentance 



Scarlet Geranium A kiss 



Snowdrop A friend in need 



Sting Nettle Rudeness 



Sweet William Gallantry 



Tuberose Bereavement 



Tulip Boldness 



Violet Modesty 



Yellow Rose Jealousy 



Consult Stack's Wild Flowers That Every 

 Child Should Know; Morley's Flowers and Their 

 Friends; Gibson's Blossom Host and Insect 

 Guests; Maeterlinck's The Intelligence of the 

 Flowers; Skinner's Myths and Legends of Flow- 

 ers, Trees, Fruits and Plants. 



Related Subject*. The following list includes 

 not only the flowers given separate treatment in 

 these volumes, but a number of more general 

 articles which have to do with certain phases of 

 the subject : 



Adonis 



Agrimony 



Amaranth 



American Beauty 



Anemone 



Arbutus 



Asphodel 



Aster 



Azalea 



Bachelor's Button 



Begonia 



Bignonia 



Bitterroot 



Black-eyed Susan 



Bleeding Heart 



Bluebell 



Bridal Wreath 



Buttercup 



Calla 



Camellia 



Campanula 



Candytuft 



Canna 



Cardinal Flower 



Carnation 



Chrysanthemum 



Clematis 



Columbine 



Convolvulus 



Cosmos 



Cowslip 



Crocus 



Cyclamen 



Daffodil 



Dahlia 



Daisy 



Dandelion 



Day Lily 



Dog's-tooth Violet 



Dutchman's Breeches 



Easter Lily 



Edelweiss 



Everlasting Flower 



Fleur-de-lis 



Forget-me-not 



Four o'clock 



Foxglove 



Fuchsia 



Gardenia 



Gentian 



Geranium 



Gladiolus 



Gloxinia 



Goldenrod 



Harebell 



Heliotrope 



Hepatica 



Hibiscus 



Hollyhock 



Honeysuckle 



Hyacinth 



Hydrangea 



Immortelle 



Iris 



Jasmine 



Jonquil 



Kaiserblume 



Lady's Slipper 



Larkspur 



Lilac 



Lily 



Lily of the Valley 



Lobelia 



Lotus 



Marigold 



May Apple 



Mignonette 



Moccasin Flower 



Moonflower 



Morning-glory 



Narcissus 



Nasturtium 



Oleander 



Orchid 



FLOYD, floid, JOHN BUCHANAN (1807-1863), 

 an American statesman and Confederate sol- 

 dier in the War of Secession. He was grad- 

 uated from South Carolina College in 1826, 

 practiced law in Virginia and in Arkansas, and 

 was governor of Virginia from 1846 to 1852. 

 In March, 1857, he became Secretary of War 

 in President Buchanan's Cabinet, but his lack 

 of administrative ability soon became apparent. 

 In December, 1860, Floyd was discovered hon- 

 oring heavy drafts made by government con- 

 tractors in anticipation of future earnings, and 

 the President requested his resignation. 



In February, 1862, he became commander 

 of the Confederate forces at Fort Donelson, 

 and on the night of February 18 he fled, with 

 his second in command, General Pillow, leaving 

 General Simon B. Buckner to surrender to Gen- 

 eral Grant. Two weeks later he was relieved 

 of his command by President Davis, and died 

 at Abingdon, Va., during the next year. 



FLUORESCENCE, floo ores' ence, a property 

 possessed by certain substances by virtue of 

 which they send back to the eye rays of light 

 of a different color from that of the rays falling 

 upon them. The name was taken from the 

 mineral fluor spar, many violet and green va- 

 rieties of which exhibit this property in a 

 marked degree. A fluorescent substance ab- 

 sorbs a part of the light which falls upon it, 

 modifies it to a great extent, and then radiates 

 it again; the modification consists in increasing 

 the wave-length of the light which strikes the 

 body. 



This phenomenon was discovered by Sir 

 David Brewster in 1833, in the course of his 



