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Sabbatia bracljiata. Natural Oudek: GcntianacciC — Gentian Family. 





,''"-,^F the Sabbatias (so called in honor of the Italian botanist Sab- 

 bati) there are several varieties, and although but few have 

 found their way into cultivation, j-et they deserve to be classi- 

 L lied among our most beautiful native plants. The Star Flower, 

 ^x'''^ one of the species, is found quite abundantly on dr\- prairies 

 ^^ in several of our Western and Southern States. The stem is 

 :: .ibout a foot high, with lance-linear leaves. The blossoms are varied 

 ^j in different individual plants. Sabbatia brachiata has flowers of a 

 delicate rose-purple, with a yellow star, which is bordered with green; 

 ~ and Sabbatia stellaria is rose-color, the star of which is bordered with 

 - red. It is to this family that the plants belong from which the medical 

 Ij remedy known as gentian is obtained, the properties being both tonic 

 and febrifugal. 



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lET us lov. 



AND many hours we talked in joy. 

 Yet too much blessed for lausrht 



\ in this uur fairest youth, 

 in find a full and fond retui 

 —Percira/. 



r)E thine the more refined dehghts, 

 Of love, that banishes control, 



I was a happy man that 

 And. happy ever after. 



lay, When the fond heart with heart unites, 



— .!/■»■.<. rro-"iii. And soul in unison with soul. 



—Cart-nrighl. 

 AND canst thou not accord th\ heart 

 ^ In unison with mine — 

 Whose language thou alone hast heard. 

 Thou only canst di\-ine.- —RufusDa-.^,:.-,. 



■\TrHICH is that this of all men on ear 

 Doth love me well enough to count m 

 To think my soul and his of equal girth 

 O liberal estim.-ite! 



.\nd yet it is so; he is bound to me. 



For human love makes aliens near of kin; 

 By it I rise, there is equality; 



I rise to thee, my twin. —'Jeaii higelam. 



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