TIMIDITY.

MARVEL OF PERU.-Mirabilis.

"Solitaire amante des nuits,
Pourquoi ces timides alarmes,
Quand ma muse au jour que tu fuis
S'apprête à révéler les charmes?

Si, par pudeur, aux indiscrets
Tu caches ta fleur purpurine,

En nous dérobant tes attraits,

Permets du moins qu'on les dévine."

This Belle de nuit is made the emblem of timidity, because it cannot endure the gaze of Sol, which enlivens and expands most other flowers.

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'The infant flames, whilst yet they were conceal'd
In tim❜rous doubts, with pity I beheld;

With many smiles dispell'd the silent fear,

That durst not tell me what I dy'd to hear."

Prior.

TREASON.

WHORTLE-BERRY.-Vaccinium Myrtillus.

"Come, stain your face with whortle-berry."

This emblem of treason is only found on dreary heaths and mountainous situations, where its fruit has often been used to disguise the face of the proscribed.

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TRUTH.

BITTER SWEET NIGHTSHADE.-Solanum Dulcamara.

The first great work

Is, that yourself may to yourself be true."

Roscommon.

However delightfully sweet truth must ever appear, it is frequently found a bitter draught to those to whom it is presented; and from this cause we presume the emblem has been established.

UNANIMITY.

PHLOX.-Phlox.

Unanimous, as sons of one great sire."

Milton.

This North American plant is presented as the emblem of unanimity, in allusion to the united forms of the flowers, whose clustered corymbs form an umbel; and also from the United States, from whence we procured them.

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UNEASINESS AND JEALOUSY.

GARDEN MARYGOLD.-Calendula officinalis.

"The marygold, that goes to bed with the sun,
And with him rises weeping."

Shakspeare.

"And jealousie,

That wered of yeleve goldes a gerlond,

And had a cuckowe sitting in her hand."

Chaucer.

This flower, which closes its petals with the last smile of the sun, is given as a represent

ative of jealousy on account of its yellow colour.

Dryden says,

"Small jealousies, 'tis true, inflame desire;

Too great, not fan, but quite blow out the fire."