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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
approaches, each of these divisions curls up 
at the slightest touch, and scatters its seeds 
to a distance by a spontaneous movement. 
Hence its English appellation—Touch-me- 
not. 
Importunity , Burdock. Burdock takes pos¬ 
session of a good soil, from which it is very 
difficult to extirpate it. Everybody is ac¬ 
quainted with its burs, which fasten on one’s 
clothes in such a troublesome manner. 
Inconstancy , Large-flowered Evening Prim¬ 
rose. A native of Virginia, which, notwith¬ 
standing its inconstancy, has been favourably 
received in our gardens. 
Independence , Wild Plum-tree. The wild 
Plum is the least tractable of our native 
trees. It will not bear the knife, neither can 
it be transplanted. 
Indiscretion , Bulrush. King Midas, having 
preferred the singing of Marsyas, the satyr, 
to that of Apollo, the god clapped upon him 
a pair of ass’s ears. The king’s barber saw 
them, and, unable to keep the secret, buried 
it at the foot of a cluster of Bulrushes. These 
reeds, shaken by the wind, continually mur¬ 
mured, King Midas has ass's ears. 
