Sabbatia bradjiata. 
Natural Order: Gentianacece — 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, 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 ot 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 
and febrifugal. 
Tlfripanlij. 
ET us love now in this our fairest youth, 
J When love can find a full and fond return. 
— Percival. 
AND many hours we talked in joy, 
L Yet too much blessed for laughter; 
TAE thine the more refined delights, 
Of love, that banishes control, 
I was a happy man that day, 
And happy ever after. 
When the fond heart with heart unites, 
—Mrs. Hovjitt. And soul in unison with soul. 
—Cartvj rigid. 
AND canst thou not accord thy heart 
* *■ In unison with mine — 
Whose language thou alone hast heard, 
Thou only canst divine? —RufusDawes. 
TATHICH is that this of all men on earth 
’ ' Doth love me well enough to count me great- 
To think my soul and his of equal girth? 
O liberal estimate! 
And 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. —Jean Ingelow. 
TTTHERE heart meets heart reciprocally soft, 
' * Each other’s pillow to repose divine. 
— Young. 
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