FLORAL EMBLEMS. 
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Spencer pictures, 
-“ Gnawing jealousy, out of their sight. 
Sitting alone, his bitter lips did bite.” 
Shakspeare calls this monster 
“ Green-eyed jealousy.” 
AN UPSTART 
Is represented by a mushroom on a green 
turf. The great Verulam observes, “ Mush¬ 
rooms come up in a night, and yet they are 
unsown ; and therefore such as are upstarts in 
state, they call in reproach mushrooms.” 
-“ The humble mushroom, scarcely known. 
The lowly native of a country town.” 
Dry den. 
