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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
DECEITFUL CHARMS. 
Thorn-apple.— Datura Stramonium. 
This dangerous narcotic plant clothes it¬ 
self with such an elegant indented foliage, 
and garnishes its branches with carollas of 
so graceful and negligent a shape, and of 
so pure a white, that all suspicion of its dele¬ 
terious nature seems lulled to rest. Whilst 
like the lamise of old, its charms only allure 
that its power may destroy ; and hence, in 
symbolical language, the datura is made the 
emblem of deceitful charms, and the common 
stramonium is made to express disguise. 
“ Hence guilty joys, distastes, surmises. 
False oaths, false tears, deceits, disguises.” 
Pope. 
