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Xanthiam strumarium. Natura Orver: Composite — Aster Family. 
eIKE some of the human family, certain plants have but very 
2 little biography, and what they have is not very favorable. 
®They necessarily have had progenitors or ancestors, but not 
: le, the illustrious, the noted, the famous; neither have they 
Sige, beauty or attractions sufficient to redeem them from ob- 
ONS scurity. The Clotbur resembles the burdock, the Spanish 
needles, and some others of those provoking plants that scatter their 
seeds by adhering to whatever comes in contact, which they do readily 
by the hooked spines with which they are provided. They are mostly 
coarse plants, found in byways, fields, woods and barnyards. 
Detraction, 
ETRACTION is a bold monster, and fears not 
To wound the fame of princes, if it find 
But any blemish in their lives to work on. —Massinger. 
2TTXIS not the wholesome, sharp morality, Of the malicious, ignorant and base 
Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, Interpreter; who will distort, and strain 
That hurts or wounds the body of a State; The gen’ral scope and purpose of an author 
But the sinister application To his particular and private spleen. —Fonson. 
IRTUE itself ’scapes not calumnious strokes; 
The canker galls the infants of the spring, 
For oft before their blossoms be disclos’d, 
And in the morn and liquid dew of youth, 
Contagious blastments are most imminent. 
—Shakespeare. 
N° skill in swordmanship, however just, iss one whose whip of steel can with a lash 
Can be secure against a madman’s thrust; Imprint the characters of shame so deep, 
And even virtue so unfairly match’d, Ev’n in the brazen forehead of proud sin, 
Although immortal, may be prick’d or scratch’d. That not eternity shall wear it out. 
—Cowper. —Randolph. 
APPY are they that hear their detractions, 
And can put them to mending. —Shakespeare. 
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