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Jjljjisostcgta Dirginiana. Natural Order: Labiate—Mint Family. 
ATIVE to various portions of the Southern and Western 
States, this plant may occasionally be found beautifying our 
^gardens, where it thrives well and increases rapidly. It is 
rather handsome in appearance, varying from one to lour feet 
in height, with a square, thick, upright stem. The leaves 
appear opposite each other, and are large and glossy, and 
a dark green in color. The flowers are on the tops ol the bi anches, 
in a four-rowed spike. They are a pale purple in tint, with spots 
on ^ nner The plant blooms freely during August and 
'^‘September. There are no special virtues ascribed to the Physos- 
tegia. The botanical name (from the Greek) signifies a bladder-like 
covering, from the puffed or inflated appearance of the corolla. 
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C OMMANDING, aiding, animating all, 
Where foe appear’d to press, or friend to fall. 
—Byron. 
rpHE brave man seeks not popular applause, 'T'HE brave man is not he who feels no fear, 
1 Nor, overpower’d with arms, deserts his cause; * For that were stupid and irrational; 
Unshamed, though foiled, he does the best he can; But he whose noble soul its fear subdues, 
Force is of brutes, but honor is of man. And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. 
—Dryden. —Joanna Baillie. 
True valor 
Lies in the mind, the never-yielding purpose, 
Nor owns the blind award of giddy fortune. 
— Thomf son. 
T^IGHT valiantly today; 
*■ And yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, 
For thou art framed of the firm truth of valor. 
— Shakespeare. 
A TO fire nor foe, nor fate, nor night, 
I ’ The Trojan hero did affright, 
Who bravelv, twice, renewed the fight. 
— Sir. J. Denham. 
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DARE do all that may become a man; 
Who dares do more is none. — Shakespeare. 
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