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INDEX. 



Latin name of Veronica, 295; 

 inscriptions in San Giovanni 

 Laterano and S. Domenico in 

 Bologna, 295 ; medicinal pro- 

 perties, 296, 297; not now in- 

 cluded in our materia medica, 

 298 ; V. beccabunga used for 

 salad, 298; speedwell erro- 

 neously called eyebright, 298; 

 British veronicas, 302 ; anec- 

 dote of Rousseau, 304. 



Spurge (Euphorbia), curious old 

 names, 372 ; belief respecting 

 in Kashmir, 372; a most acrid 

 poison, 373; fatal use of, 373; 

 employed to destroy warts, 

 372 ; Gerarde's excellent ad- 

 vice respecting, 373 ; custom 

 of using the seed-pods for a 

 pickle most dangerous, 373 ; 

 used to poison fish in Abys- 

 sinia as in ancient Britain, 

 374 ; deaths caused by drink- 

 ing the milk of a goat which 

 had eaten it, 375; whether the 

 eisule of Shakespeare, 375 ; 

 British species, 375 ; distri- 

 bution, 375. 



Star of the broom -pod, Cosse 

 de geneste, 22. 



Stellaria (see Stitch-wort), 263. 



Stitch-wort (Stellaria), its names, 



263 ; cures sting of a bee, 



264 ; flowers almost through- 

 out the year, 264; an excellent 

 table vegetable, 264; British 

 species, 265. 



Stockholm MS., account of, 88 

 (see Medical MS.) 



Stockton-bitter, 379. 



Stone-break (see Saxifrage), 357. 



Stone-crop (see Live-long), 258. 



Sundew (Drosera), 31 ; its names, 

 32 ; its aspect, 33 ; its irrita- 

 bility overrated, 33 ; peculia- 

 rity of the opening of its flower- 

 buds, 34 ; used as a rennet, 36 ; 

 as a cosmetic, 36 ; as a counter- 

 irritant, 36 ; valued in medi- 

 cine, 37; liquor from, called 

 rossoli, 37 ; British species of, 



37; droseras have dyeing pro- 

 perties, 37. 



Superstition is misguided faith, 

 96. 



Thistle (Carduus), its adoption 

 as the emblem of Scotland, 

 320 ; the badge and the order 

 confounded, 322; fancied to 

 be a Bourbon emblem, 323 ; 

 Order of the Thistle, 323; dis- 

 putes as to the real thistle of 

 Scotland, 324 ; its use as an 

 esculent, 326; for fodder, 328; 

 dues on thistles, and tythe of, 

 328 ; oil from its seed, 328 ; 

 paper from down, 328 ; medi- 

 cinal properties, 329 ; said to 

 have been pointed out by an 

 angel, 329; an exhaustive crop, 

 330; extraordinary power of 

 increase, 330 ; persistence in 

 ground, 330 ; indicates a natu- 

 rally rich soil, 331 ; labour a 

 blessing, 331 ; thistles on the 

 Pampas, 332; in the Holy 

 Land, 332 ; on the Russian 

 steppes, 332 ; Perikatipole, 

 332; in Australia, 333; act 

 of parliament against, 334 ; 

 British species, 335 ; beauty, 

 335 ; wild bee lies on in a tem- 

 porary shower, 336. 



Thunder-flower, 390. 



Toads borne in the arms of 

 France, as heraldic devices, 

 on shield of Clovis at In- 

 spruck, the arms of Meulan, 

 396. 



Torch-blade (see Mullein), 59. 



Touch-leaves (see St. John s-wort), 

 96. 



Towton Field, roses on, 219, and 

 appendix. 



Treacle, its meaning, 297. 



Trefoil, with four leaflets, 55; 

 in connection with mythology, 

 56 ; emblematic dances, con- 

 nected with, of the Celtic 

 races, 57. 



Trivial things, untrue teaching 



