TIIE MYllTLE. 
Botanical Name, Myrtus communis. —Class, Icosanclria. 
—Order, Monogynia.—Native place, South of Europe 
and the East.— Flowers, white. 
Sentiment. 
LOYE. 
ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
A tradition of the Arabs asserts, that when 
Aclam was driven from Paradise,, he bore in 
his hand a sprig of myrtle which he had 
gathered from the bower in which he first 
declared his love to Eve. It is therefore 
most aptly selected as an emblem of love. 
More especially as the ancients regarded it as 
sacred to Venus; and placed wreaths formed 
of it on the brows of bloodless victors. 
