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ELyebright, 
Euphorbia hpperitfolia. Narurar Orver: Euphorbiacee— Spurge Family. 
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i YEBRIGHT is a simple little plant found in dry soils in the 
United States. It is an annual, about a foot and a half high, 
with smooth, purple stem, and leaves marked with oblong 
blotches. The blossoms are white, appearing in clusters dur- 
Zing the summer. A medicine prepared from it was formerly 
“used for diseases of the eye. There is also another plant 
called Eyebright, a native of the White Mountains, with bluish-white 
flowers appearing in spikes. Its classic name is Euphrasia, meaning 
cheerfulness, in Greek, from the same root as Euphrosyne, one of the 
three graces. 
Your Eyes arg Bewitrhing, 
ND then her look —O, where ’s the heart so wise, 
Could, unbewilder’d,: meet those matchless eyes? 
Quick, restless, strange, but exquisite withal, 
Like those of angels. —Moore. 
OME praise the eves they love to see, HOSE laughing orbs that borrow 
As rivaling the western star; From azure skies the light they wear, 
But eyes I know well worth to me Are like heaven —no sorrow 
A thousand firmaments afar. Can float o’er hues so fair. 
—Fohn Stirling. —Mrs. Osgood. 
INE things to sight requiréd are: 
The power to see, the light, the visible thing, 
Being not too small, too thin, too nigh, too tar, 
Clear space and time, the form distinct to bring. 
—Sir F. Davies. 
NEVER saw an eye so bright, And sometimes swam in tears: 
And yet so soft as hers; It seem’d a beauty set apart 
Tt sometimes swam in liquid light, For softness and for sighs. 
—Mrs, Welby. 
ER eyes, in heaven, 
Would through the airy region stream so bright 
That birds would sing, and think it were not night 
—Shakespeare, 
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