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to it, and the plant is called by a word in their tongue 

 signifying, healing all things. When it is found, 

 sacrifices and feasts being prepared under the Oak, 

 two white bulls are brought, whose horns are bound 

 for the first time with garlands : the priest clothed in 

 white, ascends the tree, and with a golden pruning- 

 hook cuts off the Misseltoe, which he receives into 

 his white cassock. The victims are then killed, and 

 offered up with prayers that God would prosper those 

 on whom he has bestowed so precious a gift. 



" An antidote against sterility and ail poisons is 

 ascribed to the virtues of this plant ; so great is the 

 superstition of nations concerning frivolous things."- 



Of the Genus Viscum there are twelve species, 

 all exotic except this Viscum album. Of this Order 

 there is only one other British Genus Myrica, of which 

 there are nine species, but the Myrica Gale is the 

 only species indigenous to Great Britain. 



CRDER 5. 



HEMP. The native soil of this plant is not known 

 with certainty. Linnaeus gives it to the East Indies 

 and Japan. There can be little doubt but that the 



corresponded to that of the ancient greeks ; as by Herodotus 

 we learn, that with them three made a century, 

 a Piinv, lib. xvi.c 44. 



PEKTAN. 

 DR1 A. 



rive Stamina. 



