Dorking.
_"Violet-crowned" Athens_ (Vol. ix., p. 496.).--I have always understood
that the adoption of the _violet_ as the heraldic flower of old Athens
involved, as heraldry so often does, a pun. As you well know, the Greek for
violet is [Greek: Ion], and thence its adoption as the symbolical flower of
the chief city in Europe of the _Ion_ian race.