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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
fheiah (melancholy thistle) in their crown. 
It is now so happily blended with the English 
rose, that we hope no hand will escape the 
prickles of each, who shall dare attempt to 
divide them. 
INCONSTANCY. 
Great-flowered Evening Primrose. 
CEnothera grundifiora . 
" Yon evening primroses, when day has fled. 
Open your pallid flowers, by dews and moonlight fed.” 
Barton. 
This flower, that shuns the day as if it could 
not face the truth, is made the emblem of in¬ 
constancy. 
“ They know how fickle common lovers are ; 
Their oaths and vows are cautiously believ’d ; 
For few there are but have been once deceiv’d.” 
Dry den . 
