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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
EXTINGUISHED HOPES. 
Convolvulus Major .—Convolvulus purpreus. 
“ Convolvulus, expand thy cup-like flower. 
Graceful in form, a!nd beautiful in hue.” 
This flower is given to the ladies, that when 
they have made their happy choice, they may 
have an appropriate flower to bestow on their 
hopeless suitors, so as to extinguish the flame 
their charms have created. 
“ The soft god of pleasures that warm’d our desires. 
Has broken his bow, and extinguish’d his fires.” 
Dry den . 
