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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
made the emblem of folly, but whether on account 
of the party-colour which it frequently takes in 
the garden, or in allusion to the shape of the nec¬ 
tary, which turns over, like the caps of the old 
jesters, or those which painters give to Folly, we 
are left to divine. 
Foresight, Holly, Page 249. 
Forgetfulness, Moonwort. This plant has not re¬ 
ceived its name from its seed, as it has been gene¬ 
rally supposed, but from the partition which di¬ 
vides its broad, flat pods, and is round like the 
moon. Rene, duke of Bar and Lorraine, having 
been taken prisoner at the battle of 'roulongeon, 
painted, with his own hand, a sprig of Moonwort, 
and sent it to his vassals, to reproach them for 
their dilatoriness in effecting his deliverance. 
Forget-me-not, Scorpion Grass. Page 183. 
Forsaken, Anemone. Anemone was a nymph, 
beloved by Zephyr. Flora, jealous of her, banish¬ 
ed her from her court, and transformed her into a 
flower, that blows'before the return of spring. 
Zephyr has abandoned this unhappy beauty to the 
rude caresses of Boreas, who, unable to gain her 
love, harshly shakes her, half opens her blossoms, 
