160 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



GOODNESS. 



MERCURY, OR GOOD HENRY. Mercurialis. 



This plant (says a French author) which 

 grows without culture in the midst of our 

 plains, will confer a more lasting duration on 

 the memory of Henri Quatre, than the statue 

 of bronze placed on the Pont Neuf, though 

 protected by an iron rail and a guard of 

 soldiers. 



GOSSIP. 



COBCEA. Cobaa scandens. 



" Go to a gossip's feast, and goude with me." 



" With all my heart, I '11 gossip at this feast." 



Shakspeare. 



This Mexican plant, whose flowers remind 

 us of the tea-table equipage, and whose ten- 

 drils, like the tongue of the gossip, lets no- 

 thing escape which it chances to meet with, 



