PASSION-FLO WER. 



PASSION-FLOWER {Passiflora <;«?r?//^«).— Christian 



Faith. 



" High o'er the pointal, decked with gold, (emblem mysterious to behold!) 



A radiant cross its form expands ; 

 Its opening arms appear to embrace the whole collective human race, 



Refuse of all men, in all lands." — Anon. 



A VIVID imagination has traced in this flower figures of 

 a crown of thorns, the scourge, the sponge, the nails, and the 

 five wounds of Christ ; on account of these fancied resem- 

 blances it has been called Passiflora, or the Passion-flower. 



PATIENCE DOCK {Rumex Patientia).—? KTlY^-^QY.. 



Medical science used to avail itself of the roots of this 

 plant, which are extremely bitter. The name is ambiguous. 

 It is used ambiguously by Mademoiselle Scudery, '^ La 

 patience nest pas la flcnr dcs FranqaisT Passerat has also 

 written in his Jardin d'Amonr, 



" On pcut en ce jardin cucillir la Patience, 

 De la prendre en amour jc n'ai pas la science." 



THE P^ONY (Pcuonia offici?ialis).—Su\^\E. 



This flower has been made emblematical of Shame, 

 o because Rapin, in his pcjcm, J)rs Jardi/is, speaking of the 

 ^>. Paeony, says, " They arc n(jt the blushes of modest)' 



