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Star Flower, 
Sabbatia brachiata. Natura. Orpver: Gentianacee —Gentian family. 
F the Sabbatias (so called in honor of the Italian botanist Sab- 
bati) there are several varieties, and although but few have 
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found their way into cultivation, yet they deserve to be classi- 
fied among our most beautiful native plants. The Star Flower, 
one of the species, is found quite abundantly on dry prairies 
in several of our Western and Southern States. The stem is 
about a foot high, with lance-linear leaves. The blossoms are varied 
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 
remedy known as gentian is obtained, the properties being both tonic 
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and febrifugal. 
Ketiprocity, 
oe us love now in this our fairest youth, 
When love can find a full and fond return. 
—Percival. 
Awe many hours we talked in joy, B* thine the more refined delights, 
Yet too much blessed for laughter; Of love, that banishes control, 
I was a happy man that day, When the fond heart with heart unites, 
And -happy ever after. —Mrs, Howitt. And soul in unison with soul. 
—Cartwright. 
ND canst thou not accord thy heart 
In unison with mine — 
Whose language thou alone hast heard, 
Thou only canst divine? —Rufus Dawes. 
yo is that this of all men on earth And yet it is so; he is bound to me, 
Doth love me well enough to count me great — For human love makes aliens near of kin; 
To think my soul and his of equal girth? By it I rise, there is equality ; 
O liberal estimate! I rise to thee, my twin. —Fean Ingelow, 
(HERE heart meets heart reciprocally soft, 
‘ Each other’s pillow to repose divine. 
—Young. 
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