FLORAL EMBLEMS. 315 



VICE. 



DARNEL, OR RAY-GRASS. Lolium. 



" No fruitful crop the sickly fields return ; 

 But oats and darnel choak the rising corn." 



Dry den. 



This degenerated species of corn frequently 

 springs up to the injury of the crops, as vice 

 will rear its head in the midst of virtue, for 



" No vice so simple, but assumes 



Some mark of virtue on its outward parts." 



Shakspeare. 



