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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
BLUSHES. 
Marjoram .— Origanum. 
O 
“ Bind your brows with the flowers of sweet smelling 
marjoram.” 
Catullus. 
The scaly leaves of some species of marjoram 
are delicately tinged with red, as when the 
blood is suddenly sent into the cheeks of youth. 
I have mark’d 
A thousand blushing apparitions 
To start into her face ; a thousand innocent shames.” 
Shakspeare. 
