THE LUPINE. 
Botanical Name, Lupinus varius. —Class, Diadelphia. 
—Order, Decandria. — Flotvers, white, yellow, rose- 
coloured, and blue .—Native place, south of Europe. 
-Sentiment. 
DEJECTION. 
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ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
The Lupine has been adopted as the emblem 
of sorrow, from the fact of its leaves drooping 
and its flowers closing, when the shadows of 
evening commence their triumph over the 
departing sun, as though they sorrowed over 
the coming reign of darkness and deplored 
the absence of the poet’s “ god of day.” 
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