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WILD FLOWERS. 



FORGET-ME-NOT. 



Myosotis palustris. 



Welsh, Y Dorfagl, Golwg Christ, Llygaid Christ, Goleiddrem, 

 Gloywlys, Effros. French, GremiUet, Scorpionne. Ger- 

 man, Vergiss-mein-nicht. Danish, Forgjoet-mig-ej. Dutch, 

 Kniidig-muize-noor. Italian, Orecchio di topo. Spanish, 

 'Miosota.. Portuguese, Myosota. Russian, Dukowka. 



NATURAL. 



Pentandria, Boraginece, 



Monogynia. Asperifolice. 



I AM not aware that this very brightest of our 

 flowers has, in the lesser sense of the word, any 

 actual shall I say any discovered use ? yet I am 

 confident that the most practical spirit of the nine- 

 teenth century will not object to my including it in 

 this volume of useful plants, forming, as it does, so 

 universal an emblem of friendship, from its colour 

 resembling the blue of Heaven, by which constancy 

 is symbolized. We will also make for ourselves 

 another use, which shall be as high and as holy as 

 are those lessons of active and earnest toil which we 

 receive from examining the ceaseless utility of the 

 natural objects which on every side surround us. 

 We will make it a sileut reminder that even the 

 sphere of usefulness will not justify us in neglecting, 

 amidst the whirl of active life, to cultivate in calm- 



