Aadder, 
Cuscuta epilinmm. Narurar Orver: Convolvulacee —Convolvulus Family. 
> UROPE is the native seat of the Dodders, which are of several 
kinds, yet so similar in nature that the description of one 
“gives an idea of all. This plant is an inhabitant of the 
fields, being destitute of foliage, having a reddish orange stem 
of a parasitical nature—that is, having no power of provid- 
ing nutriment for itself, as it depends upon some neighboring 
& plant around which it twines. The root then decays, when it receives 
its nourishment from the plant that supports it, by means of small 
projecting filaments, with which it penetrates them, absorbing their 
juices. This particular species grows on flax, whence its name, from 
the Greek ef, on, and “non, flax; the origin of the name Cuscuta is 
unknown. The flowers are a yellowish white. 
Baseness. 
F the tears I shed were tongues, yet all too few would be, 
To tell of all the treachery that thou hast shown to me. 
—Bryaunt, 
OR vicious natures, when they once begin HE proudest of you all 
To take distaste, and purpose no requital, Have been beholden to him in his life: 
The greater debt they owe, the more they hate. Yet none of you would once plead for his fife. 
—Thomas May. —Shakespeare. 
COULD stand upright 
Against the tyranny of age and fortune; 
But the sad weight of such ingratitude 
Will crush me into earth. Denham. 
HAVE been base; ISHONOR waits on perfidy. The villain 
Base ev’n to him from whom I did receive Should blush to think a falsehood; ’tis the crime 
All that a son could to a father give: Of cowards. —C. Fohnson. 
Behold me punish’d in the self-same kind; 
Th’ ungrateful does a more ungrateful find. BE how’ be sete hie sommlemantce for secelt 
—Dryden. And promises a lie before he speaks. —Dryden, 
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