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INDEX. 



fee, 27 ; wood prized by cabi- 

 netmakers, 27; fibres employed 

 for ropes, linen, and paper, 27; 

 ashes yield a pure alkaline salt, 

 27; names of, 27; only one 

 true broom in Britain, 28. 



Bruise-wort (see Daisy), 63. 



Burian, 332. 



Burr (see Bathurst), 333. 



Butter-wort (Pinguicula), its lo- 

 calities and appearance, 190; 

 British species, 191 ; names 

 of, 1 92 ; medicinal properties, 

 193; its effect on milk, 193; 

 its irritability, 194. 



Calluna (see Heather), 172. 



Calystegias, 339. 



Campanula (see Bell-flower), 114. 



Cardamine (see Bitter-cress), 129. 



Carduus (see Thistle), 320. 



Carex (see Sedge or Seg), 366. 



Centaury (Erythrcea), which 

 plant, 285 ; its names, 285 ; 

 unnecessary perplexities in bo- 

 tanical nomenclature, 286; me- 

 dicinal value of the ceutaury, 

 287, 288; when to be gather- 

 ed, 287; popular names, 288 ; 

 beauty, 289 ; British species, 

 289 ; situations, 290 ; closes 

 at noon, 291. 



Chaplet- weavers of France, 228. 



Charm, knights in trial by com- 

 bat pledged to bear no, 350. 



Chemistry, modern, its magic, 

 240. 



Chickweed (see Stitch-wort), 263. 



Chrysosplenium, 360. 



Cleavers (see Goose-grass), 253. 



Codlins and Cream (see Willow- 

 herb), 164. 



Columbine (A quilegia), its names, 

 246 ; use in medicine, 247 ; 

 emblem of hope to the de- 

 serted, 247; but one British 

 species, 248 ; said to be of 

 Roman introduction, 248. 



Convallaria (see Lily of the Val- 

 ley), 266. 



Convolvulacese, their distribu- 

 tion, 338. 



Convolvulus (see Bindweed), 338. 



Corn-flower, what, 302 (note). 



Corona Sutilis, 217. 



Cowden-knowes, the ballad of, 

 17 and note. 



Cow-tree, 345. 



Crane's-bill (see Herb Robert), 

 311. 



Creosote, essence of pears from, 

 240. 



Crocus (Crocus), used by Roman 

 ladies to dye their hair, 156; 

 used for dyeing linen by the 

 Irish, 157; prohibited by law, 

 157; used as an exhilirative, 

 157; other medicinal proper- 

 ties, 158 ; used for strewing 

 floors, 159; saffron cakes, 159; 

 saffron of Kashmir, 159; sup- 

 posed introduction into Eng- 

 land, 160 ; used by us earlier, 

 160 ; sacred to St. Valentine, 

 161; fabled origin, 161; its 

 names, 161 ; saffron crocus not 

 indigenous, 162; legend of the 

 town of Zaffouroonee, 163. 



Cuckoo-flower (see Bitter-cress), 

 129. 



Cuckoo's-meat (see Woodsorrel), 

 52. 



Cuckoo-pint (Arum), "lords and 

 ladies," 206 ; fortunes told by 

 it, 206 ; German superstition, 

 206; English belief, 207; but 

 one British species, 207; the 

 salep of commerce, 208; its 

 cogeners, 208; its acridity dis- 

 sipated by drying a peculia- 

 rity known to the lowest tribes 

 of negroes, 208; employment 

 in medicine, 208 ; as starch, 

 210; as food, 210; the aris 

 and aron of Pliny, 210; its 

 names, 211 ; vegetable evolu- 

 tion of heat, 233. 



Current, Rennel's, its influence 

 on vegetation, 249. 



Cuychunchulle, 198. 



Cynips rosae, 239. 



