266 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
sheep have browsed this plant, their teeth look as 
if they were stained by the blood of some victim. 
Thus wickedness frequently takes advantage of 
deceitful appearances to calumniate innocence. 
Candour, White Violet. Candour precedes Mo- 
desty : it is a Violet still clothed in the colour of 
Innocence. 
Chastity, Sensitive Plant. Page 176. 
, Orange-flower. It is customary in some 
countries for brides to wear a wreath of Orange- 
flowers ; and it is still usual in the neighbourhood 
of Paris to deny this ornament on their wedding- 
day to females who have not preserved their 
chastity. 
Child-birth, Dittany. When Juno presided at the 
birth of children, by the name of Lucina, she 
wore a crown of Dittany. The pleasing smell of 
this shrub, and the medicinal properties for which 
it was so famous among the ancients, cause it to 
be still held in esteem. It is a native of the 
island of Crete. 
Childhood, Primrose. Page 39. 
Confidence, Liverwort, or Hepatica. When the 
gardeners see th"e pretty flowers of the Hepatica, 
