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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
Calm Repose , Buck-bean. Page 101. 
Calumny, Madder. Madder stains red. When 
sheep have browsed this plant, their teeth 
look as if they were stained by the blood of 
some victim. Thus wickedness frequently 
takes advantage of deceitful appearances to 
calumniate innocence. 
Candour, White Violet. Candour precedes Mo¬ 
desty : it is a Violet still clothed in the colour 
of Innocence. 
Chastity, Sensitive Plant. Page 176. 
-, Orange-flower. It is customary in 
some countries for brides to wear a wreath of 
Orange-flowers; and it is still usual in the 
neighbourhood of Paris to deny this ornament 
on their wedding-day to females who have not 
preserved their chastity. 
Child-birth, Dittany. When Juno presided at 
the birth of children, by the name of Lucina, 
she wore a crown of Dittany. The pleasing 
smell of this shrub, and tbe medicinal proper¬ 
ties for which it was so famous among the 
ancients, cause it to be still held in esteem. It 
is a native of the island of Crete. 
Childhood, Primrose. Page 39. 
