CHAPTER III 



Anemones, or wood-flowers The yellow anemone The 

 mountain anemone The so-called hepatica Lady's- 

 smocks The monks as herbalists Plants as teachers 

 of religion Wood sorrel Solomon's-seal Solomon as 

 herbalist Tusser's u Fiue Hundred Pointes of Good 

 Husbandrie " Lilies of the valley Cosmopolitan plants 

 Our familiar wildlings introduced into Japan, the 

 United States, Australia, &c. Of intention or inad- 

 vertently Our daisies La Belle Marguerite Chaucer's 

 favourite flower The virtues of May-dew Ox-eyes 

 Names suggestive of resemblance The alkanets we 

 grow. 



THE snow-white anemones that spring up in 

 such profusion in the copses in March and 

 April are so called from the Greek word for wind, 

 the name being given from an old belief that the 

 flowers could not expand till beaten by the wind. 

 This idea is found in the works of the earliest 

 writers, such as Dioscorides and Pliny. It is often 

 called the wind-flower, and especially by the poets. 

 It is a very easy plant to cultivate, seeming to 

 do equally well whether in the sunshine or the 

 shade, and when once established needs no further 

 care. On our second plate we have an illustra- 



