Lion's Heart, 
Phyvsostegia Dirginiana. Natura. Orver: Labiate—Mint Family. 
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in height, with a square, thick, upright stem. The leaves 
= appear opposite each other, and are large and glossy, and 
_a dark green in color. The flowers are on the tops of the branches, 
Y in a four-rowed spike. They are a pale purple in tint, with spots 
“on the inner side. The plant blooms freely during August and 
%@ September. There are no special virtues ascribed to the Physos- 
§ tegia. The botanical name (from the Greek) signifies a bladder-like 
» covering, from the puffed or inflated appearance of the corolla. 
Bravery. 
OMMANDING, aiding, animating all, 
_ Where foe appear’d to press, or friend to fall. 
—Byron. 
HE brave man seeks not popular applause, HE brave man is not he who feels no fear, 
Nor, overpower’d with arms, deserts his cause; For that were stupid and irrational; 
Unshamed, though foiled, he does the best he can; But he whose noble soul its fear subdues, 
Force is of brutes, but honor is of man. And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. 
—Dryden. —Foanna Baillie. 
True valor 
Lies in the mind, the never-yielding purpose, 
/ Nor owns the blind award of giddy fortune. 
—Thompson. 
IGHT valiantly today; O fire nor foe, nor fate, nor night, 
And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, The Trojan hero did affright, 
For thou art framed of the firm truth of valor. Who bravely, twice, renewed the fight. 
— Shakespeare. — Sir. F. Denham. 
DARE do all that may become a man; 
\ Who dares do more is none. — Shakespeare. ( 
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