CHAPTER III 



Plants of the Moorland, the Meadow, the Stream — Difficulty of Classification 

 — 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 Dwale, or deadly Nightshade— Its Virulent 

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

 Employment in Distillation — The Antidote of Mithridates — Mistletoe 

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

 found — The Complcat Husbandman — 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 

 Sylvarum of Bacon — Carrot, or Bird's-nest — Cranberries — The Bear- 

 berry — The Crowberry — Broom — Shepherd's Needle — Conclusion. 



WHILE in our first chapter we dealt mainly with 

 plants of the hedgerow, and in the second with 

 trees of the woodland, it soon became abundantly evident 

 to us that such an attempt to discriminate and sort out 

 was only possible on the broadest possible basis, many 

 an aspiring hedgerow shrub being quite prepared to 

 become a tree of very respectable size if only the fateful 

 shears would not so persistently cut short its ambitions ; 

 while, on the other hand, some plants that are included 



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