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thereof and the teeth it hath with poison in the 

 gummes, being deadly and dangerous upon the 

 biting, and by the breeding, which is of quicke 

 young ones, and not by egges as snakes are) by 

 laying some of the herbe to the wound. It hath 

 beene helde profitable for agues, to weaken their 

 fits, and to take them away, to hang the rootes with 

 the rest of the herbe about the necke, as nine to 

 men, and seven to women and children, but this, 

 as many other, are idle amulets of no worth or 

 value : yet since it hath beene reported unto me 

 for a certaintie that the leaves of Buckshorne 

 Plantane laid to their sides that have an ague, will 

 suddenly ease the fit, as if it had beene done by 

 witcherie : the leaves and rootes also beaten with 

 some bay salt, and applyed to the wrestes worketh 

 the same effects, which holde to be more reasonable 

 and proper." l 



The subject of Plate XLV. Echmacea purpurea 

 we have not ourselves cultivated, but found it in 

 the rock-garden of a neighbour. The plant stands 

 some three to four feet high and is splendidly 

 effective when seen as a backyard plant against a 

 screen of ivy or other dark mass. The lilac flower 

 on the next Plate, XL VI., has a special delicacy that 

 commends itself at once to us. It is the Globularia 

 cordifolia : a plant found at considerable elevation 

 amidst the rock debris of the Alps, and in stony 

 1 Parkinson. 



