FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
DICTIONARY OF EMBLEMS. 
ABSENCE. 
Wormwood . — Artemisia Absinthium . 
“ She was wean’d ; I had then laid 
Wormwood to my breast.” 
Romeo and Juliet. 
We read in Watts’s Logic, that “ Bitter is 
an equivocal word ; there is bitter wormwood, 
there are bitter words, there are bitter ene¬ 
mies, and a bitter cold morning.” And we 
