206 WILD FLOWERS. 



CUCKOO-PINT, WAKE-ROBIN, PRJEST'S- 

 PINT. 



Arum (formerly written Arori). 



Welsh, Pidyn, or Pidogyn y g6g, Cala'r gethlydd. Irish, 

 Clovas a Gachir. French, Chou poivre, Pain de lievre, Pied 

 de veau. German, Zehr-wurzel, or Zehrend-wurzel-kraut. 

 Italian, Giara. Arab, Kolkas. 



LINN^EAN. NATURAL. 



Polyandria. Aroidece. 



Polygynia. Arinece. 



Arum. 



THIS is the "lords and ladies" of country children, 

 who pull away the large enveloping spathe of the 

 blossom, and extract the brightly -coloured and beau- 

 tifully formed pistil, determining by some slightly 

 indicated varieties of its colour, whether it shall be 

 called a " lord " or a " lady/' for on the relative pro- 

 portions in the numbers of each, found by each child 

 during the spring, is to depend his good fortune 

 during the remainder of the year; and there is a 

 German superstition regarding the same plant, that 

 when a young man goes to a dance, if he puts a bit 

 of arum into his shoe, saying : 



"I place you in my shoe ; 

 Let all young girls be drawn to you," 



he will secure to himself any partner or partners for 



