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OR, LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
Flowers. 
Meanings. 
Venus, Fly Trap ...Artifice, Deceit 
Verbena ... 
Vernal G-rass 
Veronica... 
Vervain ... 
Vetch 
Vine. 
Violet, Blue 
Violet, White 
...Sensibility 
...Poor, but happy 
...Fidelity 
...Irresistible influence 
...Shyness 
...Intoxication 
...Faithfulness, Love 
...Candour, Innocence, 
Modesty 
... Constantly in my mind 
...Love in idleness 
...Filial love 
Virginian Spiderwort Momentary Bliss 
Violet, Purple 
Violet, Wild 
Virgin’s Bowei 
THE ACANTHUS. 
Proud regal plant! thy leaves were wont to twine 
The crown and wreathed majesty of kings, 
And round Corinthian colonades combine 
Their deep-jagg’d foliage in symmetric rings : 
In palace, arch of triumph, hall of mirth,— 
Thou once hast had a far diviner place. 
Though in derision and in mockery set! 
It was when HE, the taunted Nazarene, 
Amidst rude hands of cruel men was seen 
Crown’d with thy chaplet—when his cheek was wet 
Still with the tears he shed on Olivet,— 
God in his soul, though man of lowly mien 1 
