PROSERPINA. 



Westminster, are kept hitherto by the great fates for us 

 to see. But the Southern knights constantly wore these 

 lateral dragon's wings; and if I can find their special 

 name, it may perhaps be substituted with advantage for 

 1 stipule'; but I have not wit enough by me just now to 

 invent a term. 



29. Whatever we call them, the things themselves are. 

 throughout all the species of violets, developed in the 

 running and weedy varieties, and much subdued in the 

 beautiful ones; and generally the pansies have them 

 large, with spear-shaped central leaves ; and the violets 

 small, with heart-shaped leaves, for more effective deco- 

 ration of the ground. I now note the characters of each 

 species in their above given order. 



30. I. YIOLA KEGINA. Queen Yiolet. Sweet Yiolet. 

 4 Viola Odorata,' L., Flora Danica, and Sowerby. The 

 latter draws it with golden centre and white base of 

 lower petal ; the Flora Danica, all purple. It is some- 

 times altogether white. It is seen most perfectly for 

 setting off its colour, in group with primrose, and most 

 luxuriantly, so far as I know, in hollows of the Savoy 

 limestones, associated with the pervenche, which em- 

 broiders and illumines them all over. I believe it is the 

 earliest of its race, sometimes called 'Martia,' March 

 violet. In Greece and South Italy even a flower of the 

 winter. 



" The Spring is come, the violet's gene, 

 The first-born child of the early sun. 



