FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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PRESUMPTION. 
Sn a p-dragon. — Antirrhinum. 
The stem and furious lion’s gaping mouth.” 
Columella. 
This singular flower is made the symbol of 
presumption, from its monopetalous corolla 
forming a mask, which resembles the face 
of an animal. 
“ Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the fro- 
ward mouth, do I hate.” 
Proverbs viii. 13. 
