FLORAL EMBLEMS. 207 



MATERNAL LOVE. 



MOSSY SAXIFRAGE, OR LADIES CUSHION. 

 Saxifraga hypnoides. 



(< The babe had all that infant care beguiles, 

 And early knew his mother in her smiles : 

 v At his first aptness the maternal love, 



Those rudiments of reason did improve." 



Dryden. 



This plant, that so frequently clothes the 

 naked rocks of Chedder, Snowdon, and Ben 

 Lomond, is made symbolical of this instinc- 

 tive love. 



" Within her breast though calm, her breast though pure, 

 Motherly cares and fears got head, and rais'd 

 Some troubled thoughts," 



Milton. 



