Scissors are used to cut the flowers.

Nebuchadnezzar had that name given to Azariah, for the same reason that he changed the name of Daniel to that of Belteshazzar. It was done in order to nationalize—or rather to Babylonize—all the four throughout, by giving them Chaldean names, bearing the names of the gods Bel and Nego or Nebo.

For now to ſorrow must I tune my ſong, And ſet my Harpe to notes of ſaddeſt wo, […]

The inflorescence is some form of cyme, and the flowers are usually regular.