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Pine— Its Mountain Home— Cones, Pine-apples— The Larch — 

 Planted by the Million— Spanish Chestnut— As an Article of Food 

 —Abnormal Cluster — The Horse-Chestnut— A Central Asian Tree 

 — The Birch — The Lady of the Woods — Greenland's one Tree — 

 — Its Silvery Bark— The Books of Numa— Witches' Knots- 

 Attraction of Sap to Butterflies— The Birchen-rod— The "Village 

 Schoolmistress "—The Ash— The "Venus of the Woods "—The 

 Husbandman's Tree— Elizabethan Statute for the Preservation of 

 Timber— Ash-keys— Peter-keys— Norden on Sussex Iron-furnaces 

 —Shrew-ash— The Serpent's Antipathy— The Rowan, or Mountain 

 Ash— Difference of Opinion on Floral Odours— The Witchen-tree— 

 Preservative from the Evil Eye — The Service-tree — Service-berries 

 as Food— The Sycamore— The Biblical Sycamore— The Great 

 Maple— The False Plane— Sycamore-wine— Fungoid Growth on 

 the Leaves — Winged Fruits — Distribution of Seeds of the Sycamore 

 —The Maple— Maser-tree— The Plane— Its Peeling Bark— A 

 Town-tree— Irrigation with Wine — The Holly — The Saturnalia 

 again— Tunbridge Ware— The Flail— The City of Tibur— " As Pliny 

 saith "-Bird-lime 99 



CHAPTER III 



Plants of the Moorland, the Meadow, the Stream — Difficulty of Classi- 

 fication—The Yellow Iris— Obedience in Nature to Law— The 

 Relief of Choler— The Touch-me-not— A North American Plant— 

 The Alder— Amsterdam and Venice built thereon— The Gladdon, 

 or Foetid Iris— The Elder- Its Value in Medicine— The Laciniated 

 Variety— Bagpipes— The Bilberry— The Bleaberry — The Cowberry, 

 or Red Whortleberry— The Strawberry Tree— " A Fruyt of small 

 Honor"— The Butcher's Broom— Thorn Apple— A Remedy for 

 Asthma — The Henbane— Skeletonising Leaves — A Plant of Saturn 

 -Influence of Stars on Human Life— The Writings of Matthiolus 

 —The Dvvale, or Deadly Nightshade— Its Virulent Properties— 

 Atropine— The Juniper— The Biblical Tree so-called— Its Employ- 

 ment in Distillation— The Antidote of Mithridates— Mistletoe— 

 Druidic Rites— Forbidden in Churches — Parasitic— On what Trees 

 found — The Co7?ip!cat Httsbandtna7i — Pliny on Druidism — Mistletoe 

 growing in Westminster — How to grow Mistletoe— Sir John 

 Colbatch on its Medicinal Value— The Cross-leaved Mistletoe— 

 Paley on Evidences of Design — The Columbine — What is an 

 Indigenous Plant ?— A Symbol of Grief— The Scarlet Poppy— 

 Buttercups— The Parsnip— The Sylva Sylvanan of Bacon— Carrot, 

 or Bird's-nest— Cranberries— The Bearberry- The Crowberry- 

 Broom— Shepherd's Needle — Conclusion 162 



