70 FLORAL SYMBOLISM 



but transferred the attributes from the royal 

 Son to the crowned Mother, for in Spain it is 

 not found as the attribute or the emblem of the 

 Infant Christ. 



Later, the whole Catholic Church seems to 

 have accepted both the iris and the lily, and the 

 mosaic altar-frontals of St Peter's in Rome 

 bear a design in which the rose, the lily and the 

 iris are united. 



