rude caresses of Boreas, who, unable to gain 
her love, agitates her until her blossoms are 
half open, and then causes her immediately 
to fade. An anemone, with this motto, 
“ Brevis est usus ,”—“ Her reign is short,” 
admirably expresses the rapid decline of 
Faithful love secures with a branch of 
ivy the quickly fading roses which adorn the 
brow. Friendship has chosen for its device 
an ivy which clothes a fallen tree, with these 
words: — “ Rien ne peut m’en detacher.” 
In Greece, the altar of Hymen was sur¬ 
rounded with ivy, a sprig of which was pre¬ 
sented by the priest to a new married spouse, 
as the symbol of an indissoluble knot. Ihe 
Bacchantes, old Silenus, and Bacchus him¬ 
self were crowned with ivy. Ingratitude has 
sometimes been represented by ivy, as when 
it attaches itself to a young tree it confines 
the stem, and consequently prevents the free 
circulation of the sap. The author of a 
