58 LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS. 
XVIII., this sage functionary ordered the poor man 
to be apprehened. The mayor construed the verses 
above quoted in the following manner : — Flos Jovis, 
the flower of Jupiter, was of course the flower of 
Napoleon ; folii tricoloris denoted as evidently the 
three-coloured cockade ; et ipsipar violas, was a mani- 
fest allusion to la pere la violette, as Bonaparte was 
then called, because his partisans had adopted this 
flower as a sign of their attachment, and carried it 
in their button-holes or in their bosoms. Astonished 
and confounded as the poor schoolmaster at first was 
at his arrest, he could not forbear smiling at this 
comic interpretation of the above passage of his 
worship, the mayor. 
