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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
Calm Repose, Buck-bean. Page 93. 
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 
Modesty: it is a Violet still clothed in the 
colour of Innocence. 
Chastity, Sensitive Plant. Page 170. 
•-, 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 orna¬ 
ment 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 Lu- 
cina, she wore a crown of Dittany. The pleas¬ 
ing smell of this shrub, and the medicinal 
properties 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 31. 
