^£niOJjI)llrt instants. Natural Order: Ilydrophylla cece — WaterleaJ' Family. 
EMOPHILA, meaning, in the Greek, lover of the grove, is a 
low-growing, delicate, herbaceous plant, about six inches high, 
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'and a native of Calitornia. The narrow leaves are notched 
deeply on the sides, and are slightly downy; the flowers are 
small, but pretty, some being white with a purple spot on 
each petal, as if fairy hands had given each a pinch with 
thumb and finger; another is blue, edged with white, and vice versa 
— blue with a white center; altogether a dozen or more different 
varieties. The plants delight in shady grounds, making themselves 
gggg doubly desirable on that account, and present a nice appearance as 
a border for walks and margins of beds, or, if fancy dictate, they 
can be sown in a mass by themselves. 
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TYAME NATURE gave him comeliness and health, 
And Fortune, for a passport, gave him wealth. 
TT7HEN fortune raiseth to the greatest height, 
The happy man should most suppress his state, 
Expecting still a change of things to find, 
And fearing when the gods appear too kind. 
—Sir Robert Hovjard. 
— Walter Harte. 
F both our fortunes, good and bad, we find 
Prosperity more searching of the mind; 
Felicity flies o’er the wall and fence, 
While misery keeps in with patience. 
— Herrick. 
pORTUNE came smiling to my youth, and woo’d it, 
And purple greatness met my ripen’d years. 
— Dryden. 
T)ROSPERITY puts out unnumbered thoughts AT OW rising fortune elevates his mind. 
Of import high, and light divine, to man. ^ ' He shines unclouded, and adorns mankind. 
1 oung . — Savage. 
TAAILY and hourly proof 
Tell us, prosperity is at highest degree 
The fount and handle of calamity. 
— Chapman . 
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