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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
GOODNESS. 
Mercury, or Good Henry.— Mercurialis. 
This plant (says a French author) which 
grows without culture in the midst of our 
plains, will confer a more lasting duration on 
the memory of Henri Quatre, than the statue 
of bronze placed on the Pont Neiif, though 
protected by an iron rail and a guard of 
soldiers. 
GOSSIP. 
Co bcea.— Cobota scandens. 
<( Go to a gossip’s feast, and goude with me.” 
- “ With all my heart, I ’ll gossip at this feast.” 
Shakspeare. 
This Mexican plant, whose flowers remind 
us of the tea-table equipage, and whose ten¬ 
drils, like the tongue of the gossip, lets no¬ 
thing escape which it chances to meet with, 
