96 WILD FLOWERS. 



ST. JOHN'S-WORT (OR GRASS), TUTSAN, 

 TOUCH (OR TOUCHING) LEAVES, PARK- 

 LEAVES, GRACE OF GOD. 



Fuga dcemonum, Hypmcum. 



Welsh, Erinllys, or Eurinllys, Fendigedi, Nele, Ysgol Grist, 

 Ysgol Fair, Creu-lys bendiged, Bail y trwch, Llys per- 

 figedd. French, Millepertuis. German, Johanniskraut. 

 Dutch, St. Jans kruid. Italian, Pilatro. Spanish, Cora- 

 zoncillo. Portuguese, Melfurada. Russian, Sweroboi. 



NATURAL. 



Polydelphia, Hypericinece, 



Polyandria. Hypericum. 



PAINFUL are the thoughts, manifold the associa- 

 tions, induced by a consideration of this string of 

 names : names which bear us backward on the 

 stream of time to those days of old, when the 

 human mind, groping in a moral darkness, was yet 

 unable to attain to the truth, and substituted super- 

 stition for faith. Still, there are some who re- 

 gret that those " good old times " are passed, and 

 would fain disbelieve the great advancement made 

 by man in virtue and moral worth, as well as in 

 wisdom and knowledge. But the high standard of 

 public opinion at the present day, and the happy 

 union of religious feeling with good sense, sufficiently 

 disprove that superiority, which has been attributed 

 (by a partial and borne view), to those times when 



