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JpljllSOSttlVa DivginiaiUt. Natural Order: Labiatcc—Mint Family. 



ATIV^E to various portions of the Southern and Western 



Stites, this plant maj' occasionally be found beautifying our 



p,aidens, where it thrives well and increases rapidly. It is 



rather handsome in appearance, \ar3ing from one to four feet 



in height, with a square, thick, upright stem. The leaves 



■^ou appear opposite each other, and are large and glossy, and 



1 dirk green in color. The flowers are on the tops of the branches, 



I foui -lowed spike. They are a pale purple in tint, with spots 



the inner side. The plant blooms freely during August and 



btptember There are no special virtues ascribed to the Physos- 



te^u The botanical name (from the Greek) signifies a bladder-like 



co\enng from the pufled or inflated appearance of the corolla. 



|r5jucri|. 



COMMANDING, aiding, animating all, 



^ Where foe appear'd to press, or friend to fall. 



THE 

 Nc 



*HE brave man seeks not popular applause, 

 sor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; 

 Unshamed, though foiled, he does the best he can ; 

 Force is of brutes, but honor is of man. 



—Dryden. 



-Byron. 

 'HE brave man is not he who feels no fear, 

 '"or that were stupid and irrational ; 

 But he whose noble soul its fear subdues, 



THE 

 Fo 



Lies 



Nor . 



F'! 



HT valiantly toda; 

 nd vet I do thee 



framed of the firm tr 



the mind, the 

 ns the blind a 



ind thee of it, 

 ith of valor. 

 — Shakespeare. 



And bravely dares the dar 



True valor 

 never-yielding purpose, 

 vard of giddy fortune. 



— Tliom/'si 



nature shrinks from. 

 — Joanna Baillie. 



A TO fire nor foe, nor fate, nor night, 

 ^^ The Trojan hero did affright, 



twice, renewed the fight. 



— Sir. J. Denham. 



D.\RE do all that may become a man; 

 Who dares do more is none. —Sliakesfea 

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