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also, the Ark of Noah by the same flower. The collar of the 



order of the Star of India is composed of the heraldic Rose of 

 England, two Palm-branches crossed, and a Lotus-flower, alter- 

 nating with each other. 



LOVE PLANTS.— The Clematis Vitalba was formerly called 

 Love, because of its habit of embracing; from its clinging to people, 

 the Galium Apavinc has obtained the name of Loveman ; Levisticum 

 officinale is Loveage ; the Solannm Lycopersicnm is the Apple of Love ; 

 Nigella damascena is Love-in-a-mist ; the Pansy is called Love-in- 

 idleness and Love-and-idle ; and Amaranthus caudatus has been 

 named Love-lies-bleeding, from the resemblance of its crimson 

 flowers to a stream of blood. 



LUCK-FLO^A/'ER, — There is in Germany a favourite legend 

 of a certain mystical Luck-flower which possesses the extraordinary 

 power of gaining admittance for its owner into the recesses of a 

 mountain, or hidden cave, or castle, wherein vast treasures lie 

 concealed. The legend generally runs that the fortunate discoverer 

 of the receptacle for wealth is a man who has by chance found a 

 beautiful flower, usually a blue one, which he sticks in his hat. 

 Suddenly the mountain he is ascending opens to admit him; 

 astounded at the sight, he enters the chasm, and a white lady or 

 fairy bids him help himself freely from the heaps of gold coin he 

 sees lying all around. Dazzled at the sight of so much wealth, he 

 eagerly fills his pockets, and is hastening away when she calls after 

 him, ^'Forget not the best I'' He thinks, as he feels his stuffed pockets, 

 that he cannot find room for any more, but as he imagines the 

 white lady wishes to imply that he has not helped himself to enough, 

 he takes his hat and fills that also with the glittering gold. The 

 white lady, however, alluded to the little blue flower which had 

 dropped from his hat whilst he stooped to gather up the gold coins. 

 As he hurries out through the doorway the iron door shuts suddenly 

 behind him with a crash of thunder, and cuts off" his right heel. 

 The mountain side instantly resumes its old impenetrable appear- 

 ance, and the entrance to the treasure hall can never be found 

 again. As for the wonderful flower, that has vanished, but is to 

 this day sought for by the dwellers on the Kyffhauser, on the 

 Quastenburg, and even on the north side of the Harz. It was from 

 this legend that, according to Grimm, the little blue flower " For- 

 get-me-not " originally received its name, which at first was indica- 

 tive of its magic virtue, but afterwards acquired a sentimental 

 meaning from the tale of the drowning lover of the Danube and his 

 despairing death cry. 



LuNARY, — See Moonwort and Honesty. 



LUPINE. — The Romans cultivated the Lupine (Lupinus) as 

 as an article of food, and Pliny declared that nothing could be 

 more wholesome than white Lupines eaten dry, and that this diet 

 imparted a fresh colour and cheerful countenance. The eating 



