FRIVOLOUS AMUSEMENT.

BLADDER-SENNA.-Colutea.

The curious, inflated, and bladder-like legumes of this shrub being frequently made the toy of idle moments, have induced the French to name it Baguenaudier. M. Pirolle says, "Fruit dans des vessies rougeâtres qu'on fait claquer par la pression pour baguenauder, d'où son nom."

"Triflers not e'en in trifles can excel;

'Tis solid bodies only polish well."

Young.

FRUGALITY.

ENDIVE. Cichorium endivia.

“A garden-sallad,

Of endive, radishes, and succory."

Dryden.

The succory formerly made one of the dishes

of frugality.

up

"Then turn to-night, and freely share

Whate'er my cell bestows;

My rushy couch and frugal fare,

My blessing and repose.

from the mountain's grassy side

A guiltless feast I bring;

A scrip, with herbs and fruits supply'd,
And water from the spring."

Goldsmith.

Arbuthnot says, "It is impossible to march close to the frontiers of frugality, without

entering the territories of parsimony."

GAIETY.

BUTTERFLY ORCHIS.-Habenaria bifolia.

"The orchis race with vary'd beauty charm, And mock the exploring bee or fly's aerial form." Mrs. Charlotte Smith.

The butterfly, by its airy movements and its showy embellishments, gives naturally an idea of gaiety; and from hence the flower, which is thought to resemble this short-lived insect, has been selected for this emblem.

"Like some fair flow'r that early spring supplies,

That gaily blooms, but ev'n in blooming dies."

Pope.

GALLANTRY.-See CRAFTINESS.

GENEROSITY.

AN ORANGE-TREE, WITH FRUIT AND FLOWers.

This tree appears to have been chosen to express generosity, from its bearing fruit and flowers at the same time; and therefore, like that noble feeling, continually tending to the communication of benefit.

GENIUS.

PLANE TREE.-Platanus.

"His spreading planes their pleasant shade extend."

Lauderdale's Virgil.

This beautiful eastern tree, which the ancients consecrated to the Genii, is made the emblem of Genius because the philosophers of Athens held their discourses under the wide spreading branches of the plane.

"One science only will one genius fit;

So vast is art, so narrow human wit."

Pope.

GENTEEL, PRETTY.

ROSE.-Ponpone.

This compact, pretty little offspring of the provins rose, comes about as near to its parent as the term genteel does to elegant, or pretty to beautiful.

"The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant creature in the world, and is always of my mind."

Spectator.

GLORY.

LAUREL.-Prunus Laurocerasus.

"The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors."

Fairy Queen.

To wear a crown of laurel has been the soldier's ambition from the earliest ages to the present day; and when placed on the brow of a hero who has defended his country, its rays are truly glorious.

"Think it no glory to swell in tyranny."

Sidney.