172 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



HUMILITY. 



Broom . — Spartium . 

 " Even humble broom and osiers have their use." 



In the hieroglyphical language of flowers, 

 the broom is made the emblem of Humility 

 from the following historical anecdote. 



Fulke, earl of Anjou, having been guilty of 

 some crime, was enjoined, by way of penance, 

 to go to the Holy Land and submit to cas- 

 tigation. He acquiesced, habited himself in 

 lowly attire, and as a mark of his humility, 

 wore a sprig of broom in his cap. 



The expiation being happily finished. Fulke 

 adopted the name of Plantagenest, from the 

 latin of this shrub, planta-genesta. 



