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CllcljlltS tloSCUCuli. Natural Order: Caryophyllacece—Pink Family. 
HIS species of Lychnis is a perennial herb from Europe, and 
is from one to two feet high, with smooth, narrow, tapering 
leaves. The flowers are a beautiful pink, with a brown 
calyx. It is sometimes called, in England, the Cuckoo 
flower (which is but a literal translation of the Latin Jlos 
cuculi ), as it blooms about the time of the arrival of that 
* bird in early summer. The Greek word lychnis primarily denotes a 
lamp, and is conjectured to have been given to the plant because the 
down of some varieties was used for wicks, or because of the bright 
s> scarlet or reddish-purple flower of some of the others. All the varie¬ 
ties of the Lychnis have been cultivated from time immemorial, the 
flowers being red, white, pink, and purple. Some of the species 
N are as downy as the mullein. 
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JNHAPPY wit, like most mistaken things, 
Atones not for that envy which it brings. 
— Pope. 
TITITH her mien she enamors the brave; 
' ^ With her wit she engages the free; 
With her modesty pleases the grave; 
She is every way pleasing to me. 
— Shenstone. 
T70R nature never gave to mortal yet 
1 A free and arbitrary power of wit; 
But bound him to his good behavior for ’t. 
That he should never use it to do hurt. 
— Butler. 
TI TILL is the prince, and wit the counselor, 
* * Which doth for common good in council sit; 
And when wit is resolved, will lends her power 
To execute what is advised by wit. 
TTIS eye begets occasion for his wit; 
For every object that the one doth catch, 
The other turns to a mirth-loving jest. 
— Shakespeare. 
— Sir “J. Davies. 
OENSE is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; 
^ When cut by wit it casts a brighter beam; 
Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still. 
— Young. 
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