. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. 53" "1 Mrtica btoita. Natural Order: Urticacece—Nettle Family. RTICA, from the Latin uro, I burn, is the very expressive *and appropriate botanical name of this familiar nuisance, as one cannot come in contact with it without being stung. Through its innumerable tubular hairs there passes a viscous, venomous s^j^™;^ flu
. The floral kingdom : its history, sentiment and poetry : A dictionary of more than three hundred plants, with the genera and families to which they belong, and the language of each illustrated with appropriate gems to poetry . Flower language; Flowers in literature. 53" "1 Mrtica btoita. Natural Order: Urticacece—Nettle Family. RTICA, from the Latin uro, I burn, is the very expressive *and appropriate botanical name of this familiar nuisance, as one cannot come in contact with it without being stung. Through its innumerable tubular hairs there passes a viscous, venomous s^j^™;^ fluid into the pores of the skin, creating a sensation that is ^intensely disagreeable and indescribable. Hence the term nettled is a synonym for chagrin or any mortifying sensation. The Greek epithet dioica denotes belonging to the household, or familiar. The flowers of the nettle are small and green. The leaves of the young plants are sometimes used as a potherb, but of course have to be gathered with gloves. Some of the Asiatic varieties yield a fiber that is sometimes utilized as a substitute for hemp. There are in all about twenty-three genera and three hundred species of |kttb$r* T7ROM door to door you might have seen him speed, Or plac'd amid a group of gaping fools, And whispering in their ears with his foul lips. QLANDEROUS reproaches and foul infamies, ^ Leasings, backbitings and vainglorious crakes. Bad counsels, praises, and false flatteries; All these against that fort did bend their batteries. —Speiiser. —Pollock. /^H! many a shaft, at random sent, ^^ Finds mark the archer little meant; And many a word, at random spoken, M^y soothe or wound a heart that's broken. —Scott. T F I am traduc'd by tongues, which neither know My faculties nor person, yet will be The chroniclers of my doing — let me say, 'Tis but the fate of place, and the rough brake That virtue must go through. —Shakespeare. OKILL'D by a touch to deepen scandal's tints While minglin
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