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Dcrmtica cu*t>cnsis. Natural Order: Scrap hulariacece—Fig wort Family. 
ERONICA ARVENSIS, or Field Veronica, is found chiefly 
in dry fields throughout the Northern and Middle States. It 
is a small plant, from two to six inches high, with pale green 
foliage, and flowers that are blue in color. There are some 
native species of this plant that flourish only in the black and 
ivy soil of wet ditches. A variety called Spiked Speedwell, a native 
Europe and Asia, with beautiful blue or pink flowers, is now culti- 
;ed for the adornment of our gardens. It is supposed by some 
authorities that this plant was named in honor of St. Veronica. The 
common Speedwell is used by the poorer classes in Sweden as a 
substitute for tea, the true Chinese herb being probably saved for 
special occasions. Medicinally, it is reputed to possess properties that 
are sudorific, diuretic, tonic and expectorant. 
rvll! the tender ties, 
^ Close twisted with the fibers of the heart! 
Which broken, break them, and drain off the soul 
Of human jov, and make it pain to live. 
— Toung. 
AND at last he wakened from his swoon, 
^ And found his dear bride propping his head, 
And chafing his pale hands, and calling to him; 
And felt the warm tears falling on his face; 
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And said to his own heart, “She weeps for me: 
And yet lay still, and feigned himself as dead, 
That he might prove her to the uttermost, 
And say to his own heart, “She weeps for me. 
— Tennyson. 
QHE is as constant as the stars 
^ That never vary, and more chaste than they. 
— Proctor. 
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Lift, O lift, thou lowering sky, 
An thou wilt thy gloom forego! 
An thou wilt not, he and I 
Need not part for drifts of snow. 
— Jean Inge low. 
OHOULD I change my allegiance for rancor, 
v - y ' If fortune changes her side? 
Or should I, like a vessel at anchor, 
Turn with the turn of the tide? 
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