CO 
FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
Afterthoughts are good when properly used, 
but bad when 
-“ Afterthought, and idle care, 
And doubts of motley hue, and dark despair • 
Suspicions, and fantastical surmise ; 
And jealousy, suffus’d with jaundice in her eyes, 
Discolouring all she view’d-” 
Dryden's Fables. 
AGITATION. 
Moving Plant.— Hedysarum gyrans. 
“ Where dwells this sov’reign arbitrary soul, 
Which does the human animal controul, 
✓ 
Inform each part, and agitate the whole?” 
Blackmore. 
There is not a greater phenomenon in the 
history of plants than is exhibited in this na¬ 
tive of the banks of the Ganges. 
It is difficult to account for the voluntary 
motion of the leaves of this plant, which does 
