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Star of Jerusalem, now made Goatsbeard ; 

 Passion Flower, now Passiflora ; Lent Lilly, 

 now Daffodil ; Canterbury Bells, so called in 

 honour of St. Augustine, but now made into 

 Campanula ; Cursed Thistle, now Carduus — 

 besides Archangel, Apple of Jerusalem, St. 

 PauVs Botany, Basil, Herb St. Barbe, Herb 

 St. Barbara, Bishopsweed, Herba Christi, 

 Herba Benedicta, Herb St. Margaret, erro- 

 neously converted into La Belle Marguerite ; 

 God's Flower, Flos Jo vis; Job's Tears, Our 

 Lady's Laces, Our Lady's Mantle, Our Lady's 

 Slipper, Monk's Hood, Friar's Cowl, St. 

 Peter's Herb, Bean of St. Ignatius, Jesuit's 

 Bark, and a hundred more such ; — Go into any 

 garden, I say, and these names will remind 

 every one at once of the knowledge of plants 

 possessed by the Monks, most of them having been 

 named after the Festivals and Saints' Days on 

 which their natural time of blowing happened to 

 occur ; and others were so called, from the 

 tendency of the minds of the Religious Orders 

 of those days to convert every thing into a 

 memento of sacred History, and the holy 

 Religion which we profess. . 



If we could divest the histories of England 

 of the wilful falsehoods inserted into them, for 

 they are often no better than romances, and could 

 get at the truth, we should find that so far from 



