230 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



PATERNAL ERROR. 



CARDAMINE. CUCKOO-FLOWER, OR LADY'S SMOCK. 

 Nasturtium Pratensis. 



" When daisies pied, and violets blue, 



And lady's smocks all silver white, 

 And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, 



Do paint the meadows with delight." 



Shakspeare. 



This flower being one which formed the 

 crown of King Lear, after he had disposed of 

 his regal diadem to his children, has caused 

 the emblem. 



" He was met even now 

 As mad as the vex'd sea : singing aloud ; 

 Crown'd with rank fumiter, and furrow weeds, 

 With harlocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, 

 Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow 

 In our sustaining corn." 



Shakspeare. 



