92 WILD FLOWEBS OF SPUING. 



name Genievre, gave the name Geneva to the spirit 

 which we have contracted to the familiar monosyllable. 

 It is a popular plant in Norway and Sweden, where a 

 conserve is made of the berries, and the leaves are 

 used for a variety of domestic purposes. From a 

 gummy sub stance which exudes from old juniper bushes 

 the gum sandarach is made, formerly so much used 

 by conveyancers and lawyers as pounce for their manu- 

 scripts and deeds. The utility of the wood is so great 

 that it is one of the favourite trees of those places 

 where it grows to a large size. 



The singular flower Butcher's Broom (Euscus acu- 

 lent us) or Knee Holly shows its solitary greenish- 

 white flowers on the disk of the leaves in May. It is 

 a rigid prickly plant, wild in the south and west of 

 England, where its branches were and indeed are used 

 as a broom. 



Leaving the open downs, we will proceed 



