60 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



Afterthoughts are good when properly used, 

 but bad when 



" Afterthought, and idle care, 



And doubts of motley hue, and dark despair ; 



Suspicions, and fantastical surmise ; 



And jealousy, suffus'd with jaundice in her eyes, 



Discolouring all she view'd " 



Dry den's Fables. 



AGITATION. 



MOVING PLANT . Hedysanim gyrans . 



" Where dwells this sov'reign arbitrary soul, 

 Which does the human animal controul, 

 Inform each part, and agitate the whole V 



Blackmore. 



There is not a greater phenomenon in the 

 iiistory of plants than is exhibited in this na- 

 tive of the banks of the Ganges. 



It is difficult to account for the voluntary 

 motion of the leaves of this plant, which does 



