When you looked closely at the cloth, you could see the lovely pattern woven in itsmall leaf and flower, the leaves like moss leaves, and the flowers like the pimpernel, but not half so big, and they were yellow and red and blue and violet in colour.

In our own country the little pimpernel, herb-paris, and cyclamen were formerly gathered for this purpose, and the angelica was thought to be specially noisome to witches.

The same, too, is said to be the case with the pimpernel, convolvulus, and clover; while if the marigold does not open its petals by seven o'clock in the morning, either rain or thunder may be expected in the course of the day.

Then of course there is the pimpernel, known as the shepherd's clock and poor man's weather-glass; while the small purslane and the common garden lettuce are also included in the flower-clock.

Reader, what if I have been playing with thee all this whileperadventure the very names, which I have summoned up before thee, are fantasticinsubstantiallike Henry Pimpernel, and old John Naps of Greece: Be satisfied that something answering to them has had a being.

First rose the scarlet pimpernel, With burning purple heart; I saw it, and I knew right

Anagallis, pimpernel, at 78.

And fragrance floating from the lea, Of meadow-sweet and pimpernel The Toads, croak!

"By my mother's advice, I have eaten twenty leaves of rue, two roasted figs, and two pickled walnuts for breakfast, washing them down with an ale posset, with pimpernel seethed in it.

Next, I begged for an ale posset with pimpernel soaked in it, assuring him that by frequently drinking such a mixture, Secretary Naunton drew the infection from his very heart.

After crossing a stubble-field, now overgrown by the violet-coloured pimpernel, I reached the sinister pool, fringed with the flag's sword-like leaves and shadowed by willows and alders.

BARONESS ORCZY has not feared to put her most famous product, The Scarlet Pimpernel, to a similar trial.

On the other hand, though it may be that one's appetite grows less lusty, it does seem that in all the earlier chapters there is some undue proportion of thin and rather tepid preparation for episodes quite clearly on the way, so that in the end even the masterly vigour of the much advertised Pimpernel, in full panoply of inane laughter and unguessed disguise, failed to astound and stagger me as much as I could have wished.

Pimpernel and Rosemary.

R61572, 26Apr50, A. Flanagan Co. (PWH) THE LITTLE DOCTOR, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness [Emmuska] Orczy; illustrated by H. M. Brock.

Pimpernel and Rosemary.

Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel. SEE Orczy, Emmuska, Baroness.

Height, 2 ft. to 4 ft. Pimpernel.See "Anagallis.

Lovely beyond the rest Are these of all delight: The tiny pimpernel that noon loves best, The primrose palely burning through the night.

"THE HAWTHORN HATH A DEATHLY SMELL" The flowers of the field Have a sweet smell; Meadowsweet, tansy, thyme, And faint-heart pimpernel; But sweeter even than these, The silver of the may Wreathed is with incense for The Judgment Day.

6 7 WHITE WATER LILY N.A. 7 0 GARDEN LETTUCE Lec.S. 7 0 AFRICAN MARIGOLD T.E. 7 0 COMMON PIMPERNEL A.A. 7 8 MOUSE-EAR HAWKWEED H.P.

The common bind-weed closes its flowers on the approach of rain; but the anagallis arvensis, or scarlet pimpernel, is the most sure in its indications as the petals constantly close on the least humidity of the atmosphere.

The FLAX-LEAVED PIMPERNEL, Anagallis linifolia, a rare plant, giving a blue flower in the rains; introduced from Portugal.

He picked me the first bit of pimpernel I ever noticed.