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DAwart Pink. 
Houstonia cerulea. Narurar Orpver: Rubiacee—Madder Family. 
ILLIAM HOUSTON, M:D., the friend and correspondent 
» of the botanist Miller, has received the distinction of having 
lethe name of this elegant little plant changed in his honor. 
#. It was formerly called Hedyotis from the Greek hedus, sweet, 
I Y and ofz, to the ear, from its supposed value in curing deafness. 
é *, Its flowers are a pale blue with a yellowish center, and when 
e ~ found in large patches, as it sometimes is, it gives the ground quite a 
se ccerulean tinge: The Dwarf Pinks are found usually in low, moist grounds 
by the roadsides and in the fields, blooming during most of the summer. 
Some of the other varieties have pink or white flowers. 
Aunocency, 
HE bloom of opening flowers’ unsullied beauty, 
Softness and sweetest innocence she wears, 
And looks like nature in the world’s first spring. 
—fowe. 
HE angels watch the good and innocent, OPE may sustain, and innocence impart 
And where they gaze it must be glorious. Her sweet specific to the fearless heart. 
—Mrs. Hale. —Sprague. 
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ISFORTUNE may benight the wicked; she 
Who knows no guilt, can sink beneath no fear. 
—Habbing ton. 
AIR sunbright scene! — Danced happy childhood, hand in hand with Joy, 
(Not sunny all—ah! no)—I love to dwell, And dove-eyed Innocence, (unwaken'd yet 
Seeking repose and rest, on that green track, Their younger sister Hope), while flowers sprang up 
Your farthest verge, along whose primrose path Printing the fairy footsteps as they passed. 
—Mrs, Southey, 
APPY the innocent whose equal thoughts 
Are free from anguish as they are from faults. 
—Waller, 
AM arm’d with innocence, NNOCENCE shall make 
Less penetrable than the steel-ribb’d coats False accusation blush, and tyranny 
That harness round thy warriors. --Madden. Tremble at patience. —Shakespeare, 
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