WALL-FLOWER. 77 



WALL-FLOWER. Chciranthus Cheiri. 



Natural Order Siliquosa, Crucifcrcc, or Crucifonnes, a 

 Genus of the Tdradynamia Siliquosa Class. 



The rude stone-fence, with Wall-flowers gay, 



To me more pleasure yield 

 Than all the pomp imperial domes display. 



Scott.. 



Ye Wall-flowers, shed your tints of golden dye, 

 On which the morning sunbeams love to rest,— 



On which, when glory fills the glowing west, 

 The parting splendours of the day's decline,., 



With fascination to the heart address' d, 

 So tenderly and beautifully shine, 



As if reluctant still to leave that hoary shrine. 



Barton". 



In floral language, the Wall-flower stands as the 

 emblem of fidelity in misfortune, because it attaches 

 itself to the desolate, and enlivens the ruins which 

 time and neglect would otherwise have rendered 

 terrible. It hides the savage strokes of feudal 

 times on the castle walls, fills the space of the wanted 

 stone in the mouldering church, and wreathes a 

 garland on the crumbling monument no longer 

 noticed by friendly relatives. 



For this, obedient zephyrs bear 



Her light seeds round yon turret's mould, 

 And, undispersed by tempest, there 



They rise in vegetable gold. 



Laxghorne. 



