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Pointillez dans la mousseline 
De son blanc peignoir entr’ouvert, 
Et dans la porcelaine line 
Ou sa levrc boit le the vert. 
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O veroniques, sous les chenes 
Fleurissez pour les simples coeurs, 
Qui, dans les traverses humaines, 
Vont cherchant les petites fleurs.” 
Fidelity in misfortune, Wall Flower. See p. 61 , 
Finesse, Sweet William. 
Fire, Fraxinella. 
In a warm, dry day, a gas exhales from the fraxinella, 
which forms an inflammable atmosphere around it, easily 
ignited by the approach of a lighted candle. 
First emotions of love, Lilac. See p. 18. 
Flame, German Iris. 
The German peasants sometimes plant this flower on the 
roofs of their cottages. The sun, gilding the petals as they 
wave in the breeze, produces a flame-like appearance. 
Flattery, Venus’s Looking Glass. 
It is related that Venus dropped one of her mirrors. A 
shepherd picked it up, and as soon as he looked in it, forgot 
his mistress, and thought only of admiring himself, for the 
mirror had the gift of making beautiful all who looked in 
it. Love, fearing the consequences of such a silly error, 
broke the toy, and changed its fragments into this pretty 
campanula, which still retains its name. 
Folly, Columbine. 
Its flowers, resembling a fool’s-cap, gave rise to this emblem. 
