LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
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Rupture, Greek Valerian, or Polemony. 
The name is from Polemos, which means war, because, as 
Pliny assures us, several kings disputed for the honor of 
having discovered it. 
Sadness, Yew. See p. 88. 
Sensibility, Verbena. 
The original of all the numerous verbenas now cultivated 
was the verbena melindres, or common scarlet, carried from 
South America to England. These flowers are of such varied 
and beautiful tints, and so easy of cultivation, that we could 
ill spare them from the flower bed or window. 
Sensitiveness, Sensitive Plant, or Mimosa. 
Serenade, Detv Plant. 
The resemblance to dew-drops of the little transparent 
vesicles in the leaves of this plant probably caused the con¬ 
nection of ideas with evening music. 
Sighing, Aspen. 
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