are you out of your mind?" said Helen, examining the large, fine cambric handkerchief, with its delicately stamped initials under the stag's head, and three stars on a heart-shaped shield.

It bore prickly, heart-shaped pods an inch long, filled with seeds coated with a red waxy pulp.

For looking at the motto as it stood in cypher, the first thing I perceived was that, in order to read the secret, the heart-shaped figure must be left out of consideration, if there was any consistency in the system of cyphers at all, for it belonged to a class of symbols quite distinct from that of all the others, not being, like them, a picture-letter.

The leathery leaves are trifoliolate with heart-shaped leaflets.

It was a heart-shaped face, a thin, white heart, the peak of her hair cutting into the center of her forehead.

Untying the bow of pink ribbon, she pulled out the heart-shaped glass stopper, and breathed the fragrance of "Parfait d'Amour, made from California flowers.

What a lovely thing is this heart-shaped shell, with a line along the centre, and beautifully blending colors on either side.

Horizontal lines invariably decrease the height; for that reason stout women should not wear dresses cut square in the neck, but should adhere to the graceful V-or heart-shaped cut which has a tendency to give length.

There was a strange-looking plant with large heart-shaped leaves and curved yellow blossoms ending in a long upper lip that puzzled me much, and it was afterwards that I found its name to be aristolochia clematitis.

Very long, nearly at right angles to the midrib, double; blade thick oblong-lanceolate, entire; heart-shaped at the base.

Fronds coriaceous, pale, simply pinnate, or bipinnate below; the divisions broadly linear or oblong, or the sterile sometimes oval, chiefly entire, somewhat heart-shaped, or else truncate at the stalked base.

Camptosòrus rhizophyllus Fronds evergreen, leathery, four to eighteen inches long, heart-shaped at the base, but tapering towards the apex, which often roots and forms a new plant.

Heart-shaped.

All over the top of the dish I carefully laid these heart-shaped berries, and under the biggest one, at the very top, I slipped this little note: "Look at the shape of them, Georgiana!

"They have leaves that aren't unlike in shape" "The ginger is heart-shaped," interposed Ethel Blue, "and the hepatica is supposed to be liver-shaped.

[Illustration: Heart-shaped Kidney-shaped] "The hepatica is kidney-shaped," remarked James.

It was a girl's locket, heart-shaped, with a monogram engraved on the outside.

The green leaves are broad, ovate, heart-shaped, from two to four or five inches long.

The leaves are heart-shaped and very finely veined, have sharply-serrated edges and are four or five inches long.

The graceful, pendent branches are laden with beautiful red or purple heart-shaped flowers; these, combined with the delicate green of the foliage, give them a conspicuous place among plants.

" Galax Aphylla (Wand Plant).The Heart-shaped Galax is a charming little plant for rock-work.

Shell ovate, heart-shaped, white or pale brown, with darker brown rays, each formed of several narrow lines, the umbones white, the edge quite entire; the lunule lanceolate heart-shaped, obscurely defined, the centre rather prominent; inside white, the hinge margin rather broad.

I've had it carefully locked away for many a long year!" He took out of his package a heart-shaped pendant, with a much-worn gold chain attached to it, and turned it over to show an engraved inscription on the reverse side.

We have many varieties cultivated here in hot-beds; namely, yellow and red, of various shapes, as long, round, and heart-shaped.

Many writers confound it with the "ficus Indicus" or "baniyan tree," or rather, they devise an imaginary tree compounded of the two species, investing it with the heart-shaped leaves of the former, and the dropping and multiplying stems of the latter.