Pimpernel, 
Anagallis arvensis. Narurar Orver: Primulacee —Primrose Family. 
*NAGALLIS is found growing in an uncultivated state in 
, many places in Europe, so plentiful as to be classed as a 
“weed. The flowers of this variety, which are scarlet, with a 
: purple circle at the eye, open at eight o’clock and close at 
iN 2, noon, or at the approach of rain, thereby giving it the 
©) familiar cognomen of “poor man’s weather glass.” It pos- 
es the ancient Druids gathered it fasting, and with the left hand, carefully 
refraining from casting their eyes upon it, and ascribing to it magical 
a properties in the cure and prevention of diseases in their cattle. It is a 
pretty plant of a trailing habit, with beautiful flowers in the cultivated species, 
whose tints are blue, white, red, vermilion, and maroon. Its geographical dis- 
tribution extends over various portions of the world. 
(Wirth. 
HE broadest mirth unfeeling folly wears, 
Less pleasing far than virtue’s very tears. 
—Pope. 
HERE is the man that has not tried HERE is our usual manager of mirth? 
How mirth can into folly glide, What revels are in. hand? Is there no play 
And folly into sin? —Sir W. Scott. To ease the anguish of a torturing hour? 
— Shakespeare, 
HILE her laugh, full of life, without any control - 
But the sweet one of gracefulness, rung from her soul, 
And where it most sparkled, no glance could discover, 
In lip, cheek, or eyes, for she brightened all over, 
Like any fair lake that the breeze is upon, 
\ When it breaks into dimples, and laughs in the sun. ; 
—Moore. 
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