FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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OBSTACLE. 
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Ox-eye .— Buphthalurum. 
Obstacles sharpen wishes ; and it may gene¬ 
rally be observed, that where reasoning can¬ 
not succeed, they have no other effect than 
that of forwarding what they were intended 
to protract. 
OBSTINACY. 
Small Bindweed. — Convolvulus Arvensis. 
“ Convolvulus in streaked vases flush.” 
Keats. 
“ No ass so meek, no ass so obstinate.” 
Pope. 
This humble plant is a most formidable 
enemy to the husbandman, it being difficult 
to dispossess it of the land it has once taken 
