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RESERVE. 
MAPLE. 
The maple is made the emblem of reserve 
because its flowers are very slow in opening, 
and also fall with extreme tardiness. Han- 
bury observes, that when the flowers, which 
are of a fine yellow colour, are out in the 
spring, the tree has great beauty; and in the 
autumn, the leaves die to a golden yellow 
hue, which produces a good effect when the 
various tints of the fading vegetable world are 
so universally displayed. 
RESISTANCE. 
TREMELLA NOSTQC. 
The tremella is a gelatinous plant, which 
has occupied much of the naturalist’s atten¬ 
tion but as yet it has baffled research. It 
was very celebrated among the alchemists of 
old, who used it in the preparation of the phi¬ 
losopher’s stone and universal panacea, consi¬ 
dering it as a fallen star. Other sages have 
fancied it to be the returned food of hawks 
which had devoured frogs, while others sup¬ 
posed it to be an animal. It seems, however, to 
