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$nd)usa officinalis. Natural Order: B o rag in acece—Borage Family. 
^UR gardens, fields and roadsides everywhere furnish this 
rough perennial plant, which produces an abundance of sweet- 
scented purple flowers during the entire summer. The leaves 
are long and rough, from which it has received in England 
the name of Ox-tongue, and the stem is covered with bristly 
hairs. The root is used in medicine, producing a gentle 
moisture through the system. The root of one of the species yields 
the red dye that was so much used by the Athenian ladies as a rouge 
when that classic city was in its prime. 
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'T'HERETO when needed, she could weep and pray, 
And Avhen she listed she could fawn and flatter, 
Now smiling smoothly, like to summer’s day, 
Now glooming sadly, so to cloak the matter; 
Yet were her words but wind, and all her tears but water. 
— Spenser. 
TT VERY man in this age has not a soul 
^ Of crystal, for all men to read their actions 
Through; men’s hearts and faces are so far asunder 
That they hold no intelligence. 
— Beaumont and Fletcher. 
\ glittering volume may cover 
1 A story of sorrow and woe; 
And night’s gayest meteors may hover 
Where danger lies lurking below. 
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O smooth he daubed his life with show of virtue, 
He lived from all attainder of suspect. 
— Shakespeare. 
\ 7"ET there came a time 
To my proud love’s prime, 
When that proved base I had deemed sublime. 
By the cool stream’s bed 
My flowers hung dead. 
And the serpent, hissing, upreared its headl 
—Mary E. Bradley. 
QO, friend, be warned! He is not one 
^ Thy youth should trust, for all his smiles; 
Frank foreheads, gemal as the sun, 
May hide a thousand treacherous wiles. 
And tones like music’s honeved flow 
Mav work- 
-God knows!—the bitterest woe. 
Paul H. Hayne. 
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