FLORAL EMBLEMS. 195 



KNIGHT ERRANTRY. 



MONK'S-HOOD, OR HELMET-FLOWER. 

 Aconitum Napellus. 



" L'Aconit, au sue malfaisant, 

 Comme s'il s'armait pour la guerre, 

 Eleve un casque menaant." 



We present this flower as the emblem of 

 knight-errantry, because it rears its threaten- 

 ing helmet as if to protect the gayer favourites 

 of Flora. 



" The ancient errant knights 

 Won all their mistresses in fights : 

 They cut whole giants into fritters, 

 To put them into am'rous twitters." 



Hudibras. 



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