floral dictionary 
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Night: Convolvulus Minor, or Night 
Convolvulus. 
O. 
Obstacle : Ox-Eye, Rest-Harrow. 
Obstinacy: Small Bindweed. 
Old Age : Tree of Life. 
Oracle: Dandelion. 
Ornament: Hornbeam. 
P. 
Painting: Auricula. 
Parental Love: Cinquefoil. 
Paternal Error: Lady's Smock. 
Patience: Red Shanks: Patience 
Dock. 
Patriotism: Nasturtium. 
Peace: Olive. 
Peerless and Proud : Magnolia. 
Pensive Beauty: Laburnum. 
Pensiveness: Cowslip. 
Perfect Excellence: Strawberry. 
Perfidy: Almond-Laurel. 
Perplexity : Love in a Mist. 
Persecution: Checkered Fritillary. 
Perseverance : Canary Glass. 
Persuasion: Althaea Frutex. 
Pity -. Pine. 
Platonic or chaste Love : Acacia 
Pleasure without Alloy: Moss- 
Rose. 
Plenty: Maize. 
Poetry: Sweet Brier, or Eglantine. 
Poor but happy: Vernal Grass. 
Popular Favour: Cistus. 
Poverty: Evergreen Clematis. 
Precaution: Golden Rod. 
Precocity: May-Rose. 
Preference: Rose-scented Gerani¬ 
um; Apple-Blossom. 
Presage: Small-Cape Marygold. 
Pretension: Willow-Herb, Lythrum. 
Privation: Myrobalum. 
Profit: Cabbage. 
x 2 
Prohibition: Privet. 
Prolific: Fig-Tree. 
Promptitude: Ten-Weeks’-Stock. 
Prosperity: Bryony. 
Protection: Juniper. 
Provident: Purple Clover. 
Prudence : Service-Tree, Mountain- 
Ash. 
Purification or Grace : Rue. 
Purity and Modesty: White Lily. 
Q. 
Quicksightedness: Hawkweed. 
R. 
Rarity: Mandrake. 
Reason: Goat’s Rue. 
Reconciliation: Filbert. 
Refusal; Striped Pink. 
Religious Enthusiasm: Lychnis. 
Religious Superstition: Passion- 
Flower. 
Resemblance: Spiked Speedwell. 
Reserve: Maple. 
Resignation: Indian Cress. 
Resistance : Tansy. 
Resolve the Riddle : Tremella Nos- 
toc. 
Restoration : Persicaria. 
Return of Happiness: Lily of the 
Valley. 
Revenge: Birdsfoot Trefoil. 
Revery: Flowering Fern. 
Reward of Virtue: A Garland of 
Roses. 
Reward of Merit: Bay-Wreath. 
Riches: Corn, Wheat. 
Rigour: Various-coloured Lantana. 
Rivalry: Rocket. 
Rosebay ; Dignity in Misfortune. 
Royalty: Angrec. 
Rupture, Dissension : Broken Straw. 
Rustic Beauty: French Honeysuc- 
