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FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
QUICK-SIGHTEDNESS. 
Hawkweed . — Hieracium . 
This plant is made the emblem of quick¬ 
sightedness, because it was formerly given to 
hawks to sharpen their sight, and from hence 
its name originated. 
It is observed by Locke, that “ nobody will 
deem the quick-sighted amongst them to have 
very enlarged views in ethicks.” 
RARITY, OR EXTRAORDINARY. 
Mandrake. —Atropa Mandragora. 
“ -the mandrake’s flow’rs 
Whose root shews half a man, whose juice 
With madness strikes.” 
Columella. 
In symbolical language the mandrake is 
made the emblem of any thing rare or extra- 
