THE MANDRAKE. 
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Botanical Name, Air op a mandragora. — Class, Pen - 
tandria. —Order, Monogynia. — Flowers, white.— Na¬ 
tive place, the Levant ; many are found in the south of 
Europe, and some in England. 
Sentiment. 
EAEITY, E A EE. 
ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
The Mandrake is a root which requires but 
little exercise of the imagination to fancy it 
a manikin human body without a head. It 
has the appearance of a dark fleshy sub¬ 
stance ; and from this circumstance was 
formerly supposed to have animal feelings, 
and was even said to cry most piteously, on 
being divorced from the earth; superstition 
added, that such was the impiety attached to 
