FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



DICTIONARY OF EMBLEMS. 



ABSENCE. 



WORMWOOD . A rtemisia A bsinthium . 



" She was wean'd ; I had then laid 

 Wormwood to my breast." 



Romeo and Juliet. 



WE read in Watts's Logic, that " Bitter is 

 an equivocal word ; there is bitter wormwood, 

 there are bitter words, there are bitter ene- 

 mies, and a bitter cold morning." And we 



