THE WILD-FLOWER ALPHABET, OR, FLOWER VERSES FOR THE NURSERY. The costly crowns that monarch's wear A wreath of wild flowers gemmed with dews. A ANEMONE.-White Wood Anemone. The Anemone blooms in those cheerful bowers In the earliest days of spring. Then to the green wood let us go, To see where the pretty Anemones grow. B BLUE BELLS.- Scilla nutans. Bright Blue-bells of England, in woods and green dells, C COLUMBINE.-Aquilegia vulgaris. Here's the graceful Columbine, 'Tis a favorite flower of mine, And the name we bid it bear, Well describes its blossoms fair;- D DAFFODIL.-Pseudo-narcissus, Who does not love the Daffodil, Who does not love the Daffodil ? The winds of March, its flowers may chill, But gaily does it blossom still, The pretty golden Daffodil ! * If my young readers will examine a flower of the Columbine, they will see that it is formed of several parts, each of which resembles a dove stooping over the edge of a vessel to drink; from whence the flower has received its name of Columbine, from Columba, a dove. E EYE-BRIGHT.-Euphrasia officinalis. Here's the little lively Eye-bright, The simple, modest Euphrasy; They say it strengthens failing sight, And makes the dim-eyed shepherd see. It likes on pleasant downs to be, F FOXGLOVE.-Digitalis purpurea. Foxglove, in thy purple bells The busy bee is often found, Honey for his waxen cells, Gathering in his airy round. Hid within the pendent flower, Then spreads his little wings and flies. G GORSE.-Ulex europœus. The Gorse is for a winter's wreath, Other flowers in Spring are gay, |