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Time, White Poplar. 
This was made the emblem of time, because its leaves, 
dark on one side and bright on the other, represent day 
and night. 
Timidity, Four o’Cloclc, or Marvel of Peru. See p. 69. 
Tranquillity, Gold Basket. 
This plant has been supposed to have the power of curing 
madness. 
Treachery, I Vliortleherry, or Huckleberry. Monkshood , or Aconite. 
QEnomaus, father of the fair Hippodamia, had for a groom 
Myrtilus, the son of Mercury. Proud of this advantage, he 
required all the pretenders to his daughter’s hand to compete 
with him in a chariot race. Pelops, who wished to obtain 
Hippodamia, promised Myrtilus a great reward if he would 
take out the pin which held his master’s chariot wheels. He 
did so; the car was upset, and CEnomaiis was killed; but, ex¬ 
piring, he besought Pelops to avenge him, which he did by 
throwing Myrtilus into the sea. Thrown back on the shore, 
Mercury changed him to this shrub, which resembles a little 
myrtle. Its pretty, bell-shaped flowers are succeeded by dark 
berries of an agreeable flavor. 
Professor Burnett says of aconite, “ Its deleterious effects 
were well known to the ancients, who regarded it as the 
most violent of all poisons, — being unacquainted with those 
of mineral origin, — and fabled it to be the invention of Hecate, 
who caused it to spring from the foam of Cerberus. Aconite 
is said to have been the principal ingredient in the poisonous 
cup that was mingled by Medea for Theseus ; and it was the 
