THE RUE PLANT. 
Botanical Name, Ruta graveolens. —Class, Decandria. 
—Order, Monogynia. — Flowers, greenish yellow.— Na¬ 
tive place, South of Europe. 
■Sentiment,. 
DISDAIN. 
ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
Shakspeare has given us an authority to 
adopt the above interpretation— 
“ Here, in this place, 
I’ll set a hank of rue, sour herb of grace 
But we may also imagine that the acrid, 
pungent odour emitted by the plant may 
have made it an object of avoidance by the 
