FLORAL EMBLEMS. 265 



Shakspeare thus alludes to the practice. 



" A woman's tongue, 



That gives not half so great a blow to th j ear, 

 As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire/' 



RESEMBLANCE. 



SPIKED SPEEDWELL. Veronica Spicala. 



" Fairest resemblance of thy maker fair, 

 Thee all things living gaze on." 



Milton. 



This beautiful little blue flower, familiarly 

 known by the name of bird's eye, is made the 

 emblem of resemblance. 



In the flowers of the saints this plant is 

 dedicated to St. Barbatus. 



