(HttStUta cpiliuuin. Natural Order: Convolvulacece — Convolvulus Family. 
UROPE is the native seat of the Dodders, which are of several 
kinds, yet so similar in nature that the description of one 
JjC gives an idea of all. This plant is an inhabitant of the 
4 fields, being destitute of foliage, having a reddish orange stem 
of a parasitical nature — that is, having no power of provid¬ 
ing nutriment for itself, as it depends upon some neighboring 
plant around which it twines. The root then decays, when it receives 
T.®) its nourishment from the plant that supports it, by means of small 
Kgs projecting filaments, with which it penetrates them, absorbing their 
juices. This particular species grows on flax, whence its name, from 
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the Greek e-pi, on, and linon , flax; the origin of the name Cuscuta is 
unknown. The flowers are a yellowish white. 
T F the tears I shed were tongues, yet all too few would be, 
* To tell of all the treachery that thou hast shown to me. 
— Bryant. 
T 70 R vicious natures, when they once begin 
To take distaste, and purpose no requital, 
The greater debt they owe, the more they hate. 
— Thomas May. 
ypHE proudest of you all 
* Have been beholden to him in his life: 
Yet none of you would once plead for his life. 
—Shakespeare. 
T COULD stand upright 
A Against the tyranny of age and fortune; 
But the sad weight of such ingratitude 
Will crush me into earth. —Denham. 
T HAVE been base; 
* Base ev’n to him from whom I did receive 
All that a son could to a father give: 
Behold me punish’d in the self-same kind; 
Th’ ungrateful does a more ungrateful find. 
— Dry den. 
IWISHONOR waits on perfidy. The villain 
E Should blush to think a falsehood; ’tis the crime 
Of cowards. —C. Johnson. 
OEE how he sets his countenance for deceit, 
^ And promises a lie before he speaks. —Dryden. 
