THE FLOWER LANGUAGE. 
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not reciprocate her affection. One of his rejected admirers 
begged Nemesis to punish him, and the goddess caused 
him to fall in love with his own figure in a spring. Under 
the influence of this passion he pined away, and after 
death was changed into the flower which bears his name.” 
Morpheus was the god of dreams, and was always re¬ 
presented, wearing a crown of Poppies. 
The plant, Andromeda, receives its language or signifi¬ 
cation (self-sacrifice) from its name, for Andromeda was a 
mythical, virgin princess who, to satisfy the predictions of 
an oracle and to avert some calamities, was condemned to 
be chained to a rock and left a prey to the sea-monster. 
Most of the species of this genus are confined naturally to 
bogs or moist earth. 
Philemon and Baucis, his wife, were Phrygians and, it 
was said, they cordially entertained Jupiter and Mercury, 
who came to them, one day, while traveling in disguise, 
and after they had been refused hospitality everywhere 
along their route. 
Afterwards, these gods, in punishment of those who had 
been so inhospitable to them, caused a deluge to destroy 
them, but Baucis and Philemon were saved from the 
general doom. 
In answer to their entreaties to transform their cottage 
