THE DANDELION. 
Botanical Name, Leontodon taraxacum .— Class, Syn- 
genesia. —Order, Eqiialis. — Flowers, yeUow .—Native 
place, Europe, America. 
Sentiment. 
AN ORACLE. 
ORIGIN OP THE SENTIMENT. 
This lias been the schoolboy s’, the shepherds 5 , 
and the village swains’ oracle, from the olden 
time up to the present. Do they wish to 
know “the time o’ the day?”—the flowers 
of the Dandelion have their stated hours of 
opening and shutting. Do softer feelings 
occupy the thoughts of the village sw r ain ?— 
he takes the feathery globe of the Dandelion, 
and blows, not too boisterously, thereupon ; 
