THE 
CAROLINA ALLSPICE. 
Botanical Name, Calycantlius Floridus. —Class, Icosan- 
dria. — Order, Polygynia. — Flowers, dark brown at first, 
and ultimately changing to dark green .—Native place, 
Carolina. 
■Sentiment. 
BENEVOLENCE. 
ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
The warm aromatic flavour of this plant 
may have partially suggested it as a fit em¬ 
blem of benevolence; it has, however, a 
higher claim, derived from a singular pecu¬ 
liarity. After the usual season, if the termi¬ 
nal leaf-buds arc cut off, a succession of 
