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268 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
as at the approach of night. It is related that nil, 
Venus one day dropped one of her mirrors. tate 
A shepherd picked it up ; but, no sooner had hand, 
he cast his eyes on this glass, which possessed risa, 
the property of embellishing whatever it re- in ee 
flected, than he forgot his mistress, and did ToReED- 
nothing but admire himself. Love, fearful Tonga 
of the consequences of such a silly error, delover 
broke the mirror, and changed its fragments banish 
into this pretty plant, which has ever since herint 
retained the name of Venus’s Looking-glass. ofspri 
Foutty, Columbine. This graceful flower has beanty 
been made the emblem of folly, but whether unable 
on account of the party-colour which it fre- half 0 
quently takes in the garden, or in allusion medial 
to the shape of the nectary, which turns over, Tords, 
like the caps of the old jesters, or those ~is 3 
which painters give to Folly, we are left to nature 
divine. Phys 
ForEsiIcHT, Holly. Page 243. — 
ForGETFULNESS, Moonwort, This planthas not Tarvouy 
received its name from its seed, as it has been Wt p 
generally supposed, but from the partition than 
which divides its broad, flat pods, and is round 
like the moon. René, duke of Bar and Lor- 
Ih reg, 
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