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Rh habit of one variety causes it to look as though it had a special sympathy with sorrow. Love-lorn Ophelia met her end in an endeavour to place a garland of nettles and what-not on the boughs of a willow that grew aslant a brook. Another reference, Drayton has, to what his friend Spencer spoke of as

in what seems to me to be an interesting passage on the plants appropriate for chaplets —