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who found heaps of sculptured fragments, which 

 the madness of the rabble had thrown into an ob- 

 scure court of the abbey, covered over with fragrant 

 Wall-flowers, which gave rise to his verse — 



Mais quelle est cette fleur que son instinct pieux 



Sur Taile du zephir amene dans ces lieux ? 



Quoi ! tu quittes le temple ou vivent tes ratines, 



Sensible giroflee, amante des mines, 



Et ton tribut fidele accompagne nos rois ? 



Ah ! puisque la terreur a courbe sous ses lois 



Du lis infortune la tige souveraine, 



Que nos jardins en deuil te cboisissent pour reine ; 



Triompbe sans rivale, et que ta sainte fleur 



Croisse pour le tombeau, le trone et le malheur. 



TOMBEAUX DE SaIXT-DENIS. 



The common Wall-flower is a native of the South 

 of Europe, and is found wild in Switzerland, France, 

 and Spain ; and we may presume that it was one of 

 the earliest flowers which was cultivated in our 

 gardens, from its being so constantly found on the 

 ruins of our oldest buildings. Turner, one of the 

 earliest English writers on plants, calls it wall- 

 gelouer, or hartis ease. Gerard names it wall- 

 flower, yellow stocke gillo-flowers, and wall gillo- 

 flower. It is the Keyri, or Keiri, of the Arabians ; 

 the Xefxoiov of the Greeks ; the Viola lutea, and the 

 Leucoium luteum of the Latins ; the Violettas ama- 

 rillas of the Spanish ; Viola gialla of the Italians ; 

 the Giroflee des murailles, giroflier jaune violier, 

 muret, and ravenelle of the French ; and the Vio- 



