292 WILD FLOWERS. 



SPEEDWELL, PAUL'S BETONY, FLUELLEN. 



Veronica. 



Welsh, Llysiau Llewelyn, Khwyddlwyn. French, Veronique. 

 German, Ehren-preiss, Bliimchen der Treue. .Dutch, Eer 

 en priis. Danish, CEren priis. Italian, Spanish, and Portu- 

 guese, Veronica. 



LINN^EAN. NATURAL. 



Diandria. Scophularinece. 



Monogynia. Ringentes. 



Veronica. 



How pleasantly sounds in our ears the familiar old 

 English name of speedwell, and how brightly, how 

 beautifully, does the little blue flower which bears 

 it correspond to its meaning, as it seems to look 

 up to us like some clear and earnest eye, whose 

 glance willingly meeting our own indicates thoughts 

 that are uninterrupted currents of good, and gives 

 all-sufficing, guarantees of their sterling worth. In 

 almost all countries this flower appears to have been 

 looked on with peculiar favour by the eyes whose 

 gaze it so honestly meets. Bliimchen der Treue, 

 the flower of truth, is the title by which the German 

 knows its blossoms ; or, with the same prevailing 

 idea, terms it Ehren-preiss, the praise of honour, as 

 do also his Dutch and Danish brothers. Such names 



