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HMaruta cotula. NaruraLt OrveR: Composite —Aster Family. 
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S/S ERHAPS the commonest of all uncultivated plants is this 
\Proadside outcast, growing from the deep-rutted soil, utterly 
Jj disregarding all the ordinary conditions required for herbal 
‘ perfection, it sports its numerous blossoms, and during the 
& whole summer its flowers make white the borders of the 
ED dusty way. It is an annual, though so abundant as to seem 
‘perennial, and only the greatest perseverance can eradicate it or 
low, with the most opaque white, in an admirable and artistic manner, 
f’ and could it only have been odorless and rare, would have been 
@ received with ecstatic admiration, instead of contumely and contempt. 
2) The origin of the botanic name Maruta is obscure, and its meaning is 
\e quite uncertain. Cotula was the half-pint measure of the Greeks and 
Romans. 
Rumor, 
UMOR doth double like the voice and echo, 
The numbers of the fear’d. — Shakespeare. 
HE flying rumors gather’d as they roll’d; WHISPER woke the air— 
Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told, A soft, light tone, and low, 
And all who told it added something new, Yet barb’d with shame and woe,— 
And all who heard it made enlargement .too; Now, might it only perish there! 
In every ear it spread, on every tongue it grew. No farther go! —Mrs. Osgood. 
—Pope. 
FROM the Orient to the drooping West, UMOR is a pipe 
Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, 
The acts commenced on this ball of earth: And of so easy and so plain a stop, 
Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, That the blunt monster with uncounted heads — 
The which in every language I pronounce, The still discordant, wavering muititude — 
Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. Can play upon it. 
\ — Shakespeare. — Shakespeare, : 
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