LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
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poison employed to execute the barbarous law in the island 
of Ceos, which condemned to death all Avho were no longer 
useful to the state.” It is now used as a powerful remedy 
in gout, rheumatism, paralysis, and intermittent fevers. 
Truth, Bittersweet , or Woody Nightshade. 
Uncertainty, Mode Orange. 
Unchanging friendship, Arbor Vital. 
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United hearts, Phlox. 
Uselessness, Queen of the Meadow , Meadow Sweet, or Spiraea. 
Uselessness is the universal signification of this pretty flower; 
but Mr. Miller well suggests that it be changed to Neglected 
Beauty. 
Utility, Grass.. See p. 17. 
