68 THE WOODLANDS. 



imagery, redolent with the odour of the rose. The 

 red and white roses occupy a place in English history 

 not soon to be forgotten. 



Attention should be directed to a large family of 

 plants, some of them very useful, in which the small 

 flowers are usually produced at the apex of short 

 pedicels which radiate from a common centre, and 

 form a broad flat expanse of flowers, on the same 

 level, as in the cultivated carrot and parsnip. Of 

 this family some are found in woods, and amongst 

 them the Wood Sanicle, 1 in former times so highly 

 esteemed for its medicinal virtues that it was said 

 "he who keeps sanicle has no business with a doctor. ' 

 It has been supposed that this plant, being dedicated 

 to Saint Nicholas, its present name is a corruption of 

 Saint Nickel, as " sanicle." 



The Pig-nut, or Ground-nut, of schoolboys, is the 

 round tuberous root of a plant of this family, 2 not at 

 all uncommon in open places in woods, as well as 

 churchyards, and other open places. These roots are 

 about the size of a filbert, sweet and pleasant, much 

 relished by pigs, and they easily find them out by 

 their scent, and root them up. 



The wild Angelica 3 has much of the odour of the 

 garden angelica, and some of its qualities. The tall 

 hollow stems of this and the common Cow-parsnip 4 

 are prominent objects in woods ; especially in autumn 

 and winter, when dead, withered, and dry, they stand, 

 four or five feet in height, as monuments of their 



1 Sanicula Etiropcea. 3 Angelica sylvestris. 



2 Buniuw fitxuosum. 4 Heracleum spondylium* 



