This plant, which is one of the most 
beautiful and delicate of popular annuals, 
is a native of East India, and forms a showy- 
cone of carnation-like flowers finely varie¬ 
gated. It possesses the peculiar property 
of retaining, during the hottest months of 
summer, all its freshness and beauty, while 
many other plants are withered before they 
have flowered. It has been named Nolitan- 
gere and Impatiens, from the curious fact 
that when the seeds are ripe, they are thrown 
with considerable force out of the capsules 
on their being slightly touched; on this ac¬ 
count it has been made the emblem of im¬ 
patience. The Turks use it to represent 
ardent love. 
IMPORTUNITY. 
BURDOCK. 
The burdock is an inhabitant ,of road¬ 
sides and ditch-banks, and is equally common 
in Europe and Japan. When once it has 
become transplanted into good ground, it is 
very difficult to be eradicated; every one 
knows its bristly fruit, which attaches itself 
to our clothes in an importunate manner. 
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