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fjoustonirt ccrrulcit. Natural Order: Rubiacece — Madder Family 
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ILLIAM HOUSTON, M. D., the friend and correspondent 
of the botanist Miller, has received the distinction of having 
the name of this elegant little plant changed in his honor. 
It was formerly called Hedyotis from the Greek hedus , sweet, 
and oti, to the ear, from its supposed value in curing deafness, 
flowers are a pale blue with a yellowish center, and when 
found in large patches, as it sometimes is, it gives the ground quite a 
coerulean tinge. The Dwarf Pinks are found usually in low, moist grounds 
by the roadsides and in the fields, blooming during most of the summer. 
Some of the other varieties have pink or white flowers. 
'T'HE bloom of opening flowers’ unsullied beauty, 
A Softness and sweetest innocence she wears, 
And looks like nature in the world’s first spring. 
— Rovje. 
'T'HE angels watch the good and innocent, 
A And where they gaze it must be glorious. 
— Mrs. Hale. 
T T OPE may sustain, and innocence impart 
1 1 Her sweet specific to the fearless heart. 
— Sprague. 
]\ \ ISFORTUNE may benight the wicked; she 
^ Who knows no guilt, can sink beneath no fear. 
T^AIR sunbright scene! — 
(Not sunny all — ah! no) — I love to dwell, 
Seeking repose and rest, on that green track. 
Your farthest verge, along whose primrose path 
— Habbington. 
Danced happy childhood, hand in hand with Joy, 
And dove-eyed Innocence, (unwaken’d yet 
Their younger sister Hope), while flowers sprang up 
Printing the fairy footsteps as they passed. 
— Mrs. Sou they. 
T T APPY the innocent whose equal thoughts 
Are free from anguish as they are from faults. 
— Waller. 
[ AM arm’d with innocence, INNOCENCE shall make 
Less penetrable than the steel-ribb’d coats A False accusation blush, and tyranny 
That harness round thy warriors. —Madden. Tremble at patience. — Shakespeare . 
