484 Di'ant Tsorc, IsieQer^/, and "bijric/". 



In addition to this grandiose title, the little flower rejoices in a 

 multiplicity of epithets bestowed on it by rural admirers. It is 

 Heart's-ease, Forget-me-not, Herb Trinity, Three-Faces-under-a- 

 Hood, Love-and-Idle, Love-in-idleness, Live-in-Idleness, Call-me- 

 to-you, Cuddle-me-to-you, Jump-up-and kiss-me, Kiss-me-ere-I- 

 Rise, Kissme-at-the-Garden-Gate, Tittle-my-Fancy, Pink-of-my- 

 John, and Flamy, because its colours are seen in the flame of wood. 

 In the North-east of Scotland, and in Scandinavia, the flower is with 

 a spice of irony called Step-mother. In ' A Midsummer Night's 

 Dream,' Shakspeare gives the Heart's-ease magical qualities. 

 Oberon bids Puck procure for him "a little western flower" on 

 which Cupid's dart had fallen, and which maidens called " Love-in- 

 idleness. Says the fairy king : — 



" Fetch me that flower — the herb I showed thee once; 

 The juice of it, on sleeping eyehds laid, 

 Will make or man or woman madly dote 

 Upon the next live creature that it sees." 



The poet Herrick tells us, in regard to the origin of these favourite 

 flowers, that — 



" Frolick virgins once there were, 

 Over-loving, living here. 

 Being here their ends denied. 

 Ran for sweethearts mad, and died. 

 Love, in pity of their tears, 

 And their loss m blooming years, 

 For their restless here-spent hours, 

 Gave them Heart's-ease turned to flowers." 



The Pansy was the accidental cause of Bertram, the first American 

 botanist, devoting himself to the study of botany. The stamens and 

 pistil of this flower have something grotesque in their appearance 

 when disclosed, resembling to a fanciful mind an animal with arms, 

 and a head projedling and stooping forward. Bertram, who was 

 originally a farmer, while superintending his servants in the field, 

 and giving them direcftions, gathered a Pansy that was growing at 

 his feet, and thoughtlessly pulled off its petals one after another. 

 Struck with the stamens and pistil, Bertram conveyed it home, 

 that he might examine it more carefully. Its examination created 

 in him that thirst for the knowledge of the construcflion and habits 

 of plants which afterwards rendered him so famous, and won for 



him the friendship of Linnaeus. The Heart's-ease is said to 



be sacred to St. Valentine. As the Herba Trinitatis, or Herb 

 Trinity, it is the special flower of Trinity Sunday. It is con- 

 sidered to be a herb of Saturn. 



PAPYRUS. — Plutarch tells us that the vessel on which the 

 Egyptian goddess Isis embarked on her voyage to search for the 

 remains of Osiris, was constru(5ted of the Reeds of the Papyrus 

 [Papyrus antiquonim), and that the crocodiles, out of respecft and fear 



of the goddess, dared not approach the bark. The Papyrus is 



the Rush described in the Hebrew Scriptures by the word Gome, 



