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on the system as required ; therefore, several doses are 

 often administered before any action takes place in the 

 patient ; this being the case, unless the physician be a 

 scientific man, it may cause stupor or delirium, prostration 

 of strength, and other symptoms, indicating the presence 

 of a deadly poison. 



FORGET-ME-NOT. 



(MYOSOTIS PALUSTRIS.) 



" Lay to thy heart this token-flower, 



With love's own tears its leaves are wet, 

 T will whisper, in its dying hour, 

 Do not forget." 



This beautiful little deciduous herbaceous plant is indi- 

 genous in marshy grounds in England, and like other 

 weeds, considered of little merit, until the florist points 

 out its intrinsic beauty. The root is perennial, the calyx 

 fine toothed, rather smooth, teeth equal, obtuse, as long as 

 the tube of the corolla ; leaves lanceolate, smooth, the calyx 

 half the size of the limb of the corolla. It flowers from 

 April to August, of a beautiful azure blue. Veronica 

 chamadrys is often imposed on people not acquainted with 

 the plant, for the former ; this is also a native of England ; 

 the treatment of this is widely different It is found grow- 

 ing on dry banks, and flowers from May to July, throwing 

 up a spike with ten to twenty bright blue flowers, nearly a 

 foot high, possessing considerable merit for their beauty 



