THE LAURUSTINUS. 
Botanical Name, Viburnum, tinus. —Class, Peniandria. 
—Order, Polygynia .— Flotvers, white, tinged with red. 
—Native place. South of Europe. 
Sentiment, or ©mb lent of 
A TOKEN. 
« 
ORIGIN OP THE SENTIMENT. 
The poets have by universal consent con¬ 
nected this idea with the Laurustinus. 
“ A Laurustinus bear 
In blossoms to my love ; 
Its language she will hear.” 
They may have adopted it from its being a 
flowering evergreen; a continual and ever- 
ready emblem of unchanging affection; an 
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