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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
ERROR. 
Fly Orchis. — Ophrus muscifera . 
“ Why do’st thou show to the apt thoughts of men. 
The things thou art not?” 
Shakspeare. 
This plant is made the emblem of error, be¬ 
cause Flora seems to have sprinkled the stem 
with flies instead of flowers. 
“ As conscious that affection grows. 
Pleas’d with the pencil’s mimic power; 
That power with leading hand she shows. 
And paints a fly upon a flower.” 
Langhorn. 
