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HELIOTROPE, OR TURNSOLE.

(Heliotropium.)

THIS beautiful little plant a native of Peru, flowers in May; but in the greenhouse continues in bloom nearly all the year. It is said to turn to the sun, and thereby has acquired its name; but should a cloud obscure the sky, it droops its head. Its flowers are much esteemed for their beautiful simplicity and fragrance.

Class, PENTANDRIA. Order, MONOGYNIA.

THE HELIOTROPE.

THERE is a flower, whose modest eye
Is turned with looks of light and love,
Who breathes her softest, sweetest sigh,
Whene'er the sun is bright above.

Let clouds obscure, or darkness veil,
Her fond idolatry is fled;

Her sighs no more their sweets exhale,
The loving eye is cold and dead.

Canst thou not trace a moral here,
False flatterer of the prosperous hour?

Let but an adverse cloud appear,

And thou art faithless as the flow'r.

ANON.