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<i and scientifically named, as above, in honor of Monardes, 
a Spanish botanist of the sixteenth century, who wrote a 
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Jw work on the medicinal virtues of the botanical productions 
a OE Rot the new world. It is a tall, herbaceous plant, found in 
the fields and woods, having fragrant leaves and crimson flowers 
that improve under cultivation. In medicine it possesses stimulat- 
ing and carminitive properties. An infusion of the leaves is known 
as Oswego tea; and the flowers yield the coloring principle of 
cochineal. 
Osi, 3 Value Your Sympathy. 
HOU’RT like a star; for when my way was cheerless and forlorn, 
And all was blackness like the sky before a coming storm, 
Thy beaming smile and words of love, thy heart of kindness free, 
Illumed my path, then cheered my soul, and bade its sorrows flee. 
AST thou no human friend E pine for kindred natures 
To whom in hours like these to turn, To mingle with our own; 
When thine o’erburdened soul will yearn For communings more full and high 
Its bitterness to end? —AMiss MH. Rand. Than aught by mortals known. 
—Mrs, Hemans, 
ND when the world looked cold on him, 
And blight hung on his name, 
She soothed his cares with woman's love, 
And bade him rise again. seen 
oc hearts, my love, were form’d to be OVE’S soft sympathy imparts 
The genuine twins of sympathy, That tender transport of delight 
They live with one sensation; That beats in undivided hearts. 
—Cartwright, 
In joy or grief, but most in love, 
INDNESS by secret sympathy is tied, 
Like chords in unison they move, 
For noble souls in nature are allied. } 
And thrill with like vibration. —Moore. -—Dryden. 
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