SEA-SIDE PLANTS. 



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the cow-parsley, by means of which they expe- 

 rience a wild delirium of feeling. If the juices of 

 our yellow horned poppy cause madness,- then it 

 seems likely that this was one of the herbs used in 

 the times of superstition ; and now that those dark 

 practices have passed away, no record save the poet's 

 song remains of this its former use in our land. 



Though not quite so common a flower as the 

 yellow horned poppy, the sea-side Eryngo is a 

 well-known ornament of some maritime spots, and 



ERYNGO (Eryngium maritimum). 



