Fennel Flower, 
N igella Mamascena. Narurar Orper: Lanunculacee —Crowfoot Family. 
NATIVE of the south of Europe and the Levant, deriving 
y its distinctive epithet from the world-renowned and ancient 
* Damascus, this curious annual is grown as an ornamental 
flower in gardens and borders of walks. It is called Nigella 
»028 from its black seeds, and has a variety of popular names — 
PG Love-in-a-mist, Devil-in-a-bush, and Ragged Lady. The 
iz, blossoms of the different kinds are purple, blue, and white. They 
bloom single or solitary, and are encircled with fine, feather-cleft leaves, 
; like the foliage on other parts of the plant, which much resembles the 
aromatic garden fennel. 
Artifirg. 
HAT ’s the bent brow, or neck in thought reclin’d? 
The body’s wisdom to conceal the mind. 
A man of sense can artifice disdain, 
As men of wealth may venture to go plain. —Young. 
OU talk to me in parables; (eS by guilty artifice and arts 
You may have known that I’m no wordy man; Of promised kindness practice on our hearts; 
Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves, With expectation blow the passion up; 
Or fools, that use them when they want good sense. She fans the fire without one gale of hope. 
—Otway. —Granville. 
SERPENT heart, hid with a flowering face! 
Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? —Shakespeare. 
ATIENCE! I yet may pierce the rind A dark, unwholesome core is bound, 
Wherewith are shrewdly girded round Perchance, within it. Sir, you see, 
The subtle secrets of his mind. Men are not what they seem to be. 
—Paul H, Hayne. 
HEN quit her, my friend! 
Your bosom defend, 
Ere quite with her snares you're beset. 8 
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