FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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FORGET ME NOT. 
Mouse-ear Scorpion Grass. — Myosotis Palustris. 
“ Pour exprimer l’amour, ces fleurs semblent eclore; 
Leur langage est un mot—mais il est plein d’appas ! 
Dans la main des amans elles disent encor : 
Aimez-moi, ne m’oubliez pas.” 
Lettres d Sophie. 
This plant so celebrated in German love- 
song', under the emblem of “ Vergils midi 
nidit ” has hence been made to signify “ for¬ 
get me not/’ by all the sonnet writers of 
Europe. 
“ Where time, on sorrow’s page of gloom 
Has fixed its envious lot. 
Or swept the record from the tomb. 
It says — Forget-me-not.” 
