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Dettle, 
Wrtica dioica. Narurar Orpver: Urticacee—Nettle Family. 
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RTICA, from the Latin wro, I burn, is the very expressive 
*and appropriate botanical name of this familiar nuisance, as one 
cannot come in contact with it without being stung. Through 
its innumerable tubular hairs there passes a viscous, venomous 
zy, fluid into the pores of the skin, creating a sensation that is 
‘intensely disagreeable and indescribable. Hence the term 
nettled is a synonym for chagrin or any mortifying sensation. The 
Greek epithet dzotca denotes belonging to the household, or familiar. 
: Fe, Phe flowers of the nettle are small and green. The leaves of the 
xz, young plants are sometimes used as a potherb, but of course have to 
= be gathered with gloves. Some of the Asiatic varieties yield a fiber 
that is sometimes utilized as a substitute for hemp. There are in all 
about twenty-three genera and three hundred species of nettles. 
Slander, 
ROM door to door you might have seen him speed, 
Or plac’d amid a group of gaping fools, 
And whispering in their ears with his foul lips. 
—Pollock, 
LANDEROUS reproaches and foul infamies, de many a shaft, at random sent, 
Leasings, backbitings and vainglorious crakes, Finds mark the archer little meant; 
Bad counsels, praises, and false flatteries; And many a word, at random spoken, 
All these against that fort did bend their batteries. May soothe or wound a heart that's broken. 
— Spenser. —Scott, 
F I am traduc’d by tongues, which neither know 
My faculties nor person, yet will be 
The chroniclers of my doing—let me say, 
Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake 
That virtue must go through. —Shakespeare. 
KILL’D by a touch to deepen scandal’s tints While mingling truth with falsehood, sneers with smiles, 
With all the kind mendacity of hints, And thread of candor with a web of wiles. 
—Byron. 
