FURZE.] NATURAL HISTORY. 123 



THAT a woman may confess what she has done : Catch 

 a live Water-frog, and take out its tongue, and put the 

 Frog back into the water, and put the tongue over the 

 region of the woman's heart while she is asleep, and when 

 she is questioned, she will tell the truth. 



Albertus Magnus, "Of the Wonders of the World." 



FROGS abound where snakes do keep their residence. 



Holinshed, "Description of England," p. 228, 



Fumitory. 



Rank fumitory 



KING HENRY V., v. 2, 45. 



FUMITORY [fumus terr<e\ springeth and groweth out of 

 the earth in great quantity, as smoke doth, or fumosity that 

 cometh of the earth. And the more green the herb is, the 

 better it is ; and is of no virtue when it is dry. And is 

 an herb with horrible savour and heavy smell, and is nathe- 

 less most of virtue. For it cleanseth and purgeth melan- 

 cholia, phlegm and cholera. 



Bartholomew {Berthelet}, bk. xvii. 69. 





DOVES are delighted with it. 



Minsheu j s Dictionary, s.v. 



urze. 



TEMPEST, iv. I, 180. 



Is full bitter to man's taste, and is a shrub that groweth 

 a place that is forsaken, stony and untilled. 



Bartholomew {Bertkelet\ bk. xvii. 80. 



CAMMOCK [or rest-harrow or Ground-furze] hath this 

 singular virtue, that it gendereth fire of itself, for when 

 the leaves thereof fall and be dry, those leaves by a little 

 blast of hot wind and drought are set on fire. 



Ibid., bk. xvii. 138. 





