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gaudy flower so conspicuous among the weeds of the corn- 

 field. Papaver Rhceas, L. 



JOINTED CHARLOCK, from its pod being contracted be- 

 tween the seeds, so as to appear articulated, but being 

 otherwise like charlock, Raphanus Raphanistrum, L. 



JONQUIL, 8p.junquillo, dim. ofjunco, L.juncus, a rush, 

 from its slender rush-like stem, Narcissus Jonquilla, L. 



JOSEPH'S FLOWER, Du. Joseph's bloem, in allusion to its 

 popular name of Oo-to-bed-at-noon, and Joseph's refusal to 

 do so, the implements and memorials of their achievements 

 and trials having been usually adopted as the badge of 

 the Bible heroes, and exhibited in their pictures. Thus 

 Samson had his jawbone, David his giant's head, Jonah his 

 gourd, etc. Tragopogon pratensis, L. 



JOUBARB, see JUPITER'S BEARD. 



JUDAS TREE, from this, and not the elder, being the one 

 upon which some of the legends represent that traitor as 

 having hung himself, Cercis Siliquastrum, L. 



JULY FLOWER, used by Drayton under the mistaken 

 notion that it gave the meaning of Gilliflower, 



Matthiola, L. 



JUNIPER, from the Lat. Juniperus, a word of uncertain 

 origin, J. communis, L. 



JUNO'S ROSE, L. rosa junonis, the white lily. We are 

 told by Cassianus Bassus in his Geoponica (1. xi. c. 20), 

 that Jupiter, to make his son Hercules immortal, put him 

 to the breast of Juno while she was sleeping, and that the 

 milk which was spilt, as the child withdrew from her, 

 formed the milky way in the heavens, and gave rise to the 

 lily upon earth. The story is curious as an instance of one 

 that was transferred from the pagan to the Roman Catholic 

 mythology ; for it is evidently the source of a similar one 

 of the Virgin and the milk thistle. See Lyte, b. ii. c. 42. 

 Lobel, Kruydtb. p. 201. Dodoens, ii. 2. 1. 



Lilium candidum, L. 



