258 THE STORY OF PLANT LIFE 



the night the wife opened her husband's box, and 

 finding a purse, opened it, whereupon a black fly 

 buzzed out. Soon after the house took fire, and was 

 burned, and the horse-dealer killed both his wife and 

 himself. 



The German poet Rist relates that he saw an 

 Erdmann made with great pains, and more than a 

 century old, which was kept in a coffin. On the 

 coffin was a cloth, on which was a picture of a thief 

 on the gallows, and a mandrake growing beneath it. 



The following lines relate to the use of Bryony as 

 Mandrake : 



" Witches which some murther do intend, 

 Doe make a picture and doe shoote at it ; 

 And in that part where they the picture hit, 

 The partie's self doth languish to his end." 



Bryonia dioica. — The characteristic foliage is shown 

 in Fig. 54, where the coiled tendrils are also distinctly 

 evident clasping surrounding herbage. The flowers 

 shown are male flowers^ in a loose raceme, 



34. The Hemlock Group (Summary). 



{Introductory Volume^ p. iii.) 



As types of the order Umbelliferse, Beaked Parsley 

 and Angelica were described in the Introductory 

 Volume. In this volume White Rot, Eryngo, and 

 Knotted Hedge Parsley are described. 



There are three divisions depending on whether 

 the umbels are simple or compound, or in the second 



