114 FLORA'S LEXICON. 



ASMINE, CAROLINA YELLOW. Gel- 

 simium Nitidum. Class 5, Pentandria. 

 Order: Digynia. This beautiful flower 

 grows wild in great abundance in our south- 

 ern states, spreading over the hedges and 

 trees and shedding a most delicious fra- 

 grance. It is a favourite of the Humming- 

 Bird, and a British writer regrets that in transferring it to Eng- 

 land it is necessary to separate it from the sprightly and elegant 

 little bird, who finds sustenance in the nectareous vessels of its 

 flowers. 



SEPARATION. 



When the tree of Love is budding first, 



Ere yet its leaves are green, 

 Ere yet, by shower and sunbeam nurst 



Its infant life has been; 

 The wild bee's slightest touch might wring 



The buds from off the tree, 

 As the gentle dip of the swallow's wing 



Breaks the bubbles on the sea. 



But when its open leaves have found 



A home in the free air, 

 Pluck them, and there remains a wound 



That ever rankles there. 

 The blight of hope and happiness 



Is felt when fond ones part, 

 And the bitter tear that follows is 



The life-blood of the heart. 



Halleck. 



Let's not unman each other — part at once: 

 All farewells should be sudden, when for ever, 

 Else they make an eternity of moments, 

 And clog the last sad sands of life with tears. 



Byron. 



