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^Iconitum ^ctpcllus. Natural Order: Ranunculacece — Crozvfoot Family. 
HIS plant takes its name from the peculiar shape of its 
flowers, which resemble a monk’s cowl or hood, and are 
of various colors — blue, white, and rose-color. It has a 
rather pleasant appearance, and when once established 
requires but little attention, as it grows well in any soil, and 
thrives from year to year. The extract of the plant is 
extremely poisonous, but, used medicinally, it is the strong bulwark 
’of the homoeopathic practice. It is used successfully in combating 
fevers, and the first stages of most diseases, as it acts against all 
^inflammatory conditions of the body, but should never be used in the 
§> fluid state except as advised by a physician. 
Xniglji Jlrratdrij. 
QOLEMNLY he swore, 
^ That by the faith which knights to knighthood bore, 
And whate’er else to chivalry belongs, 
He would not cease till he revenged their wrongs. 
— Dryden. 
A TRUE knight, 
His heart and hand both open, and both free; 
F*- Not yet mature, yet matchless; firm in word, For what he has, he gives; what thinks, he shows; 
Speaking in deeds, and deedless in his tongue; Yet gives he not till judgment guide his bounty, 
Not soon provok’d, nor being provok’d, soon calm’d; Nor dignifies an impure thought in breath. 
— Shakespeare. 
\ FORM more active, light and strong, 
^ ^ Ne’er shot the ranks of war along; 
The modest, yet the manly mien, 
Might grace the court of maiden queen. 
— Scott. 
AT AUGHT is more honorable to a knight, 
’ Nor better doth beseem brave chivalry, 
Than to defend the feeble in their right, 
And wrong redress in such as wend awry. 
— Spenser. 
111Y good blade carves the casques of men, 
My tough lance thrusteth sure, 
My strength is as the strength of ten, 
Because my heart is pure. 
— Tennyson. 
