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^igclla SlamaSCma. Xatiral Order: RaniuiculacciV — Crouifoot Family. 



\ NATIVE of the south of" Europe and the Levant, deriving 



its distinctive epithet from the world-renowned and ancient 



"Damascus, this curious annual is grown as an ornamental 



(lower in gardens and borders of walks. It is called Nigella 



,;. from its black seeds, and has a variety of popular names — 



■'f^ Love-in-a-mist, Devil-in-a-bush, and Ragged Lady. The 



\Wi^ blossoms of the different "kinds are purple, blue, and white. They 



l"^» bloom single or solitary, and are encircled with fine, feather-cleft leaves, 



like the foliage on other parts of the plant, which much resembles the 



. - iiiimatic garden fennel. 



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I AT 's the bent brow, or neck in thought reclin'd? 



The body's wisdom to conceal the mind. 



,n of sense can artifice disdain, 



len of wealth may venture to go plain. —I'mi/tg. 



iTHERS bv 



JOV talk to me in parables; ZITHERS bv guiltv artifice and arts 



'ou may have known that I'm no wordy man; " Of promised kindness practice on our hearts 



Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves. With expectation blow the passion up; 



Or fools, that use them when they want good sense. .She fans the fire without one gale of hope. 







pATIENCE! I yet may pierce the rind 

 Wherewith are shrewdly girded round 

 The subtle secrets of his mind. 



A dark, unwholesome core is bound, 

 Perchance, within it. Sir, you see, 

 Men are not what they seem to be. 



-Paul H. Havne. 



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'pHEN quit her. my friend! 

 Your bosom defend, 

 Ere quite witli her snares you're beset. 

 —Byr. 



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