Among further plants associated with his Satanic majesty may be enumerated the garden fennel, or love-in-a-mist, to which the name of "devil-in-a-bush" has been applied, while the fruit of the deadly nightshade is commonly designated "devil's berries."

The Nigella damascena, popularly known as love-in-a-mist, was designated St. Catherine's flower, "from its persistent styles," writes Dr. Prior, "resembling the spokes of her wheel."

Then "the twig is bent," either towards that habit of self-defence which is an ever-renewing cause of selfishness, or to the sun of love-in-exercise, which is the exhaustless source of goodness and beauty.

The Love-in-absence, crushed, returned no sound, But shrank and shrivelled on my smooth young wrist.

All this love-in-a-cottage talk has clearly no allurement for Miss EDGINTON.

It had many pointed gables and quaint turrets and mullioned windows, overlooking a garden in which there were arbours for love-in-idleness where ladies had dreamed awhile on many summer days in the great yesterday of history.

I remember also that I ate at table opposite a pretty girl, with a wanton's heart, who prattled to me, because I was an Englishman, as though no war had come to make a mockery of love-in-idleness.

" Love-in-a-Mist.See "Nigella.

Perhaps the best known among them is N. Hispanica, or Love-in-a-Mist.

"Love-in-a-mist," says Timothy; "Primroses pale," says Elaine; "A nosegay of pinks and mignonette For me," says Jane.

And phloxSally, you must have masses of phloxand candy-tuft, and mignonette, and sweet alyssum" "And love-in-a-mist, and forget-me-nots, and sweet peas, and hollyhocks.

The PANSY (víola trîcolor) commonly called Hearts-ease, or Love-in-idleness, or Herb-Trinity (Flos Trinitarium), or Three-faces-under-a-hood, or Kit-run-about, is one of the richest and loveliest of flowers.

&/ "LOVE-IN-IDLENESS" has passed into a proverb, and lovers, somehow, are not generally supposed to be industrious.