72 WILD FLOWERS. 



LUNG-WORT, COWSLIP OF JERUSALEM, 

 SAGE OF JERUSALEM, SAGE OF BETH- 

 LEHEM, GOOSEBERRY-FOOL. 



Pulmondria. 



Welsh, Lys yr ysgyfaint, Llysiau Mair, Llaeth bron Mair, 

 Nodwydd ddtlr Eva, Clystiau derw (P. maritima, Glesyn 

 y mdrlan). French, Pulmonaire. German, Lungenkraut. 

 Dutch, Longekruid. Italian, Polmonaria. Spanish and 

 Portuguese, Pulmonaria. Polish, Plucnik. Russian, Me- 

 duniza. 



NATURAL. 



Pentandria. Boraginece. 



Monogynia. Asperifolice. 



THOUGH some mystical sanctity has always been 

 attached to this pretty little plant, and though 

 great virtue has been everywhere attributed to its 

 juices which, however, some old writers declare 

 to be most pernicious yet it is curious that her- 

 balist, and collector of legendary lore, seem alike 

 to have omitted it in their catalogues ; so that 

 little is now known of the estimation in which 

 it was formerly held, except what may be gathered 

 from the reverential regard still shewn for it by 

 the peasantry, who consider it propitious to secure 

 a plant of it for their gardens, though quite un- 

 able to give any reason for the preference. The 

 greater part of the names given above point merely 



