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FORGET ME NOT. 
in the flood, but, making a last effort, he 
threw the flower upon the shore, and, at the 
moment of disappearing for ever, he exclaimed 
‘ vergils mich nicht/ since which this flower 
has been emblematical, and taken the name 
of Forget Me Not. 
The first in order of time of our British 
Annuals, and which has been published for 
many years by Mr. Ackerman, derives its 
name from this floral gem. 
The Myosotis is of the class Ventandria, 
and order Monogynia. 
