190 FLORA DOMESTICA. 



By the wind unbroke, 

 And the thunderstroke, 

 Unspoiled by the axe of time." 



The following lines by another French poet, Olivier de 

 Magny, addressed to Ronsard's servant, present a most de- 

 lightful picture : 



" And if he with his troops repair 



Sometimes into the fields, 

 Seek thou the village nigh, and there 



Choose the best wine it yields. 

 Then by a fountain's grassy side, 



O'er which some hawthorn bends, 

 Be the full flask by thee supplied, 

 To cheer him and his friends." 



LONDON MAGAZINE, vol. v. p. 159. 



HEARTS-EASE. 



VIOLA TRICOLOR. 



1TIOLJE. SYNGENESIA MONOGYNIA. 



French, herbe de la Trinite ; penses [thoughts] . Italian, flam- 

 toola [little flame] ; viola farfalla [butterfly violet] ; viola segolina 

 [winged violet]; fior della Trinita; suocera e nuora [mother-in-law 

 and daughter-in-law]. The Greeks have named it phlox [a flame.] 



THIS beautiful flower is a native of Siberia, Japan, and 

 many parts of Europe. Mr. Brooke, speaking of the 

 forests in Sweden, says, " innumerable flowers of the live- 

 liest colours peeped out between the masses of brown rock, 

 enamelled with various kinds of lichens; and huge frag- 

 ments were variegated with beds of the Pansy, or Hearf s- 

 ease, displaying its different hues, relieved by the dark- 

 green of the sweeping pines *."" It is a general favourite, 

 as might be supposed from the infinity of provincial names 



* Brooke's Sweden, p. 54. 



