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tlie plague, and pestilent diseases in general, cures the biting of 

 mad dogs and all other venomous beasts. Regarding its astro- 

 logical government, Culpeper observes that it is a "herb of the 

 Sun in Leo. Let it be gathered when he is there, the moon 

 applying to his good aspect ; let it be gathered either in his hour, 

 or in the hour of Jupiter; let Sol be angular." 



ANTH YLLIS.— The English names of this plant are Kidney 

 Vetch, Lamb Toe, Lady's Fingers, Silver Bush, and Jupiter's Beard 

 (from the thick woolly down which covers the calyxes of a species 

 growing in the South of Europe). It was formerly employed as a 

 vulnerary, and was recommended by Gesner as useful in staunch- 

 ing the effusion of blood : hence its old English names of Staunch 

 and Wound-Wort. Clare says of it : — 



"The yellow Lambtoe I have often got 

 Sweet creeping o'er the banks in sunny time " 



ANTIRRHINUM. -Columella alludes to this flower as 

 " the stern and furious lion's gaping mouth." Its English names 

 are Snap Dragon, Lion's Snap, Toad's Mouth, Dog's Mouth, and 



Calf's Snout. In many rural districts the Snap Dragon is 



believed to possess supernatural powers, and to be able to destroy 

 charms. It was formerly supposed that when suspended about the 

 person, this plant was a protection from witchcraft, and that 

 it caused a maiden so wearing it to appear " gracious in the sight 

 of people." 



APPLE. — Whether the Apple, the Orange, the Pomegranate, 

 the Fig, the Banana, or the Grape w^as the acftual fruit of the 

 Tree of Knowledge, which tempted Eve in Paradise, will possibly 

 never be settled; but it is certain that not only is the Apple 

 mystical above all the fruits of the earth, but it is the supreme 

 fruit. To it has been given the Latin name Pomona, which is the 

 generic name of fruit, just as Pomona is the goddess of all the 

 fruit trees. 



The Scandinavian goddess Idima is in a measure identified 

 with the Tree of Immortality, which was an Apple-tree, Iduna 

 religiously guarded in a box the Apples which the gods, when 

 they felt old age approaching, had only to taste the juice of to 

 become young again. The evil genius, Loki, having been instru- 

 mental in the abdudlion of Iduna and her renovating Apples, the 

 gods became old and infirm, and were unable properly to govern 

 the world; they, therefore, threatened Loki with condign punish- 

 ment unless he succeeded in bringing back Iduna and her mystic 

 Apples: this he fortunately succeeded in doing. 



The golden Apples which Juno presented to Jupiter on the 

 day of their nuptials were placed under the watchful care of a 

 fearful dragon, in the garden of the Hesperides; and the obtaining 

 of some of these Apples was one of the twelve labours of Hercules. 

 By stooping to pick up three of these golden Apples presented by 



