PANSIES — continued. 
than the sepals, has no such flap to protect its stigma, and sets seed readily with its 
own pollen. 
Improving readily under cultivation, Viola tricolor has long been a garden 
favourite, and its staring, face-like, and apparently three-lobed corolla has earned for 
it an immense variety of nicknames, one at least of which has acquired poetical 
associations to which it seems to have had originally no claim. Herb Trinity , which 
occurs in Spanish as Trinitaria , and the rustic Three-faces-under-a-hood are obviously 
suggested by the form of the corolla in the wild form, before the florist had insisted 
that its outline should be circular ; but Johnny-jump-up (which is still commonly used 
both in Scotland and in the United States), Jump-up-and-kiss-me , Kiss-me-behind-the- 
garden-gate , and the many variants on the same theme, all, no doubt, also are 
suggested by the pose, conspicuousness, and curious aspect of the varying blossoms. 
The more sentimental names would seem, however, to have had a more prosaic origin. 
Heartsease is said to have meant in the first instance simply a drug found efficacious 
in cardiac affections, such as the Clove or its cheaper substitute the Clove Carnation 
or Gillyflower. The Wallflower being also known by the name Gillyflower was at 
one time called Heartsease ; and Dr. Prior suggests that 
“ as the wallflower and the pam>y were both comprehended among the Violets, that of Heartsease seems to have been 
transferred from the former to the species of the latter now called so.” 
The French Pensee is said to have been formerly Menues pensees , idle thoughts, 
and is, of course, the original of our Pansy. As Ophelia says : — 
“There is Pansies — that's for thoughts" 5 
and this has become Paunce and Fancy , the thoughts being supposed to be those of 
remembrance. 
Among the many allusions to this flower in the poets none is more pithily 
descriptive than “the pansy freaked with jet ” of Milton’s “Lycidas.” A modern 
American poetess has thus happily summed up the suggestions : — 
I send thee pansies while the year is young, 
Yellow as sunshine, purple as the night ; 
Flowers of remembrance, ever fondly sung 
By all the chiefest of the Sons of Light 5 
And if in recollection lives regret 
For wasted days and dreams that were not true, 
I tell thee that ‘ the pansy freak’d with jet,’ 
Is still the heart’s-ease that the poets knew. 
Take all the sweetness of a gift unsought, 
And for the pansies send me back a thought." 
