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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. v, 
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. 
