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INDEX. 



wheel, medical properties, 345; 

 causes love between husband 

 and wife, 345 ; account of in 

 the Stockholm MS., 346 ; em- 

 blem of purity, 347 ; used in 

 bridal coronal, 348 ; its name, 

 348; used to wreathe the bodies 

 of the dead, 348; its distribu- 

 tion, 349; British species, 349 ; 

 a German superstition, 349. 



Phoenicians, their occupation of 

 Ireland an unsupported idea, 

 310. 



Pimpernel (Anagallis), closes 

 before rain, 368; distribution, 

 369 ; a weed in the valley of 

 the Nile, 369 ; its names and 

 virtues, 369 ; used as an edi- 

 ble, 371 ; only two British 

 species, 371. 



Pine barrens of America, 184. 



Pinguicula (see Butter- wort), 190. 



Pisa, a governor of, sets a night 

 guard over a jasmine, 378. 



Plantago, 10; (see Plantain), 382. 



Plantain (Plantago), 10, 382 ; 

 its names, 382, 384 ; healing 

 properties, 384 ; used for stif- 

 fening the finer kinds of linen, 

 384; strength of its fibres, and 

 suitability for making paper, 

 384 ; invaluable fodder for 

 sheep, 384; British species, 384. 



Plants, migrating with man, 10, 

 113, 382. 



supposed by the natives 



of the Sandwich Isles to have 

 souls, 300 (note). 



Poppy (Papaver), 386 ; " sur- 

 prises" in cookery, 386 ; im- 

 proper uses of poppies, &c., 

 387; employed as an edible, 

 387 ; mixed with wine in 

 Persia, 387; medicinal proper- 

 ties well known, 388, 393; 

 dedicated to St. Margaret of 

 Antioch, 388 ; more anciently 

 to Ceres, 388; Hooke's account 

 of, 388; used for love charms, 

 389; curious belief, 390; seed 

 long retaining vitality, 390 ; 



use in antkotype, 391 ; distri- 

 bution of yellow-horned pop- 

 py, 392 ; horned poppy not 

 true poppy, 392 ; nor is the 

 Papaver (Meconopsis) Cambri- 

 cum, 392 ; true poppies of 

 Britain, 393 ; names, 393. 



Priest's-pint (see Cuckoo -pint), 

 206. 



Primrose-peerless (see Daffodil), 

 83. 



Pulmonaria (see Lung-wort), 72. 



Punning devices, 23, 323, 399. 



Purl, or wormwood-beer, 353. 



Quartering, when first used, 397. 



Bain-fall increased by fires, 119. 



"Rentes" of roses in England 

 and France, 225. 



Bhodes, its coins, 218; its em- 

 blem, 218. 



Rib-wort (see Plantain), 382. 



Romney, anciently Romania, 8. 



Rosa (see Rose), 213. 



Rose-bay (see Willow-herb), 164. 



Rose (Rosa), its uses amongst 

 the ancients, 213 ; as detailed 

 in the Stockholm MS., 214; 

 in our materia medica, 215; 

 " under the rose," 215 ; Per- 

 sian saying, 216 ; P'rench ditto, 

 216; Welsh ditto, 216; the 

 emblem of love, 216; rose- 

 garlands, 217 ; corona sutilis, 

 217; wreaths of leaves found 

 in Egyptian tombs, 217; rose 

 placed on graves, 217; the 

 rose of Anacreou, 218 ; pro- 

 tects the dead, 218; on battle- 

 field of Towton, 219, and ap- 

 pendix ; fabled origin of the 

 rose, 220, 224 ; emblem of the 

 Roman Catholic Church, 220 ; 

 golden rose, 220 ; female deity 

 of the Mexicans, 221 ; Mexican 

 Eve said to have sinned by 

 eating roses, 221; "you have 

 spoken roses," 223 ; rose and 

 nightingale, 223 ; dedicated to 

 Venus, 224; created without 



