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CHAPTER V 



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Woodruff La Reine des bois Ordinarily very little 

 sentiment in the old plant-names Goosegrass 

 Lavender Strewing herbs Sweet marjoram 

 The "Dyetery of Helthe" of Boorde Bistort- 

 Meadow-rue The globe-flower Goafs-beard 

 The salsify Nap-at-noon The speedwells The 

 sky-blue flowers of the borage The herb of 

 gladness " The Art of Longevity " Agrimony 

 Philanthropes The bindweed of our hedges 

 Sea convolvulus The much-encroaching yet 

 welcome little field convolvulus The yet more 

 encroaching but less welcome buckwheat The 

 "Theatrum Botanicum" of Parkinson . .113 



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The unexpected springing-up of plants in most unlikely 

 places The botany of a London stable-yard 

 Distributing agency of birds The Adonis-flower 

 Our various violets The sweet violet as a medicinal 

 herb A flower beloved of the poets Miss North's 

 " Recollections of a Happy Life " Broom The 

 fragrant wallflower The erratic spelling of our 

 forefathers Stone-crop Blake's u Compleat Gar- 

 dener's Practice " Snapdragons Toadflaxes 

 Curious competition statistics Saxifrages London- 

 pride Moisture-loving plants Grass of Parnassus 

 Sarracenia Moneywort, the reputed healer of 

 one hundred diseases Various un-grasslike grasses 

 of popular nomenclature Loosestrife The cinque- 

 foil and its allies Ground ivy . . .141 



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Blackberry Poole's " English Parnassus " The stone- 

 bramble Dewberries Hop Tremendous vigour 



