FLORAL EMBLEMS. 107 



DANGEROUS INSINUATION. 



Great Bindweed. — Convolvulus Sepium. 



'^ Regardez : ce beau liseron 

 Desine sa legere cloche 

 A travers cet epais buisson 

 Dent r epine defend 1' approche." 



We have added this attractive wild flower, 

 and its entwining branch to the hieroglyphi- 

 cal language of flowers, as the emblem of a 

 dangerous insinuation, because when once 

 permitted into the parterre it cannot easily 

 be eradicated, and frequently causes destruc- 

 tion to its neighbouring plants. 



Hooker observes " There is no particular 

 evil which hath not some appearance of good- 

 ness, whereby to insinuate itself." 



