THE HELIOTROPE. 
Botanical Name, Heliotropium Europium. —Class, Pen- 
tandria. —Order, Monogynia. — Flowers, white, and a 
faint purple ; they were formerly stated always to turn 
toward the sun .—Native place , South of Europe. 
Sentiment. 
DEVOTION. 
ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
For the philology of flowers we may gene¬ 
rally turn to the East, its birthplace, tvhen 
we are not supplied with their language 
nearer home ; and, in this instance, the fact 
of the flower being supposed always to turn 
to the sun would make it a fit emblem of de- 
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