132 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



ELOQUENCE. 



IRIS OR FLAG-FLOWER. Iris. 



" Iris, on saffron wings array'd with dew 



Of various colours, through the sun-beams flew." 



Virgil. 



The ancients represented eloquence by the 

 species of this flower which grows in the waters, 

 whose various colours harmonize as delight- 

 fully to the eye as fine oratory does to the ear. 



Our immortal bard observes that the eyes of 

 the ignorant are more learned than their ears. 



EMBARRASSMENT. 



LOVE IN A PUZZLE. Nigella Damascena. 



These pretty flowers being seated in a che- 

 vaux-de-frise of liner foliage, has induced 



