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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
ATTACHMENT. 
Scarlet-flowered Ipomcea. — Ipomcea coceinea. 
This beautiful plant is made the emblem of 
attachment from its entwining- nature ; which, 
like the bind weed of our fields, fixes itself to 
the first prop within its reach ; 
“ -recompensing well 
The strength they borrow with the grace they lend.” 
Coivper. 
AUSTERITY. 
Fuller’s Teasel .— Dipsacusfullonum . 
“ Let not austerity breed servile fear.” 
Roscommon. 
This plant is made the emblem of austerity 
from the extreme roughness of its conical re¬ 
ceptacle, which is used to raise the nap upon 
woollen cloths, and hence its English name. 
Austerity in courtship is generally followed 
by brutality in wedlock. 
