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Arum masculatum, another plant of baleful influ- 

 ence, with its mysterious dead white spadix bearing 

 no very far fetched resemblance to a dead man's 

 finger wrapped in its green winding-sheet and whose 

 grosser name, cuckoo-pint, is ready at hand. With 

 this selection we have plants of the same situation 

 flowering at the same time and all more or less bane- 

 ful in their influence." 



The crow has given its name to many flowers. 

 There are, indeed, more plants named for the crow 

 than for any other bird: crowfoot, crow-toes, crow- 

 bells (for daffodil and bluebells) crow-berry, crow- 

 garlick, crow-leeks, crow-needles, and many others. 



LONG PURPLE (Arum masculatam or Orchis 

 mascula) is very closely related to our woodland 

 Jack-in-the-Pulpit. It has many names: Arum; 

 Cookoo-pint, Cookoo-pintle, Wake-Robin, Friar' s- 

 cowl, Lords-and-Ladies, Cow-and-Calves, Ramp, 

 Starchwort, Bloody-men' s-finger, and Gethsemane, 

 as the plant is said to have been growing at the Cross 

 and to have received some drops of the Savior's 

 blood. This flower is mentioned in Tennyson's "A 

 Dirge" : 



Round thee blow, self-pleached deep, 

 Bramble roses, faint and pale, 

 And long purples of the dale. 



