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WONDERFUL PLANTS. 
Mx of our readers will remember the 
gure in Gerard's Herbal of the Goose- 
iree, which was also known as the Barnacle-tree ; 
the shape or form of the barnacle is well repre- 
sented, and above it isa portrait of a very self- 
d duck. In a work published by Pius II., 
late in the fifteenth century, it is stated that on 
the banks of a river in Scotland a tree grew 
which produced fruits resembling ducks, which, 
when fully ripe, fell on to the bank or into the 
water, the former of which died and the latter 
immediately changed into ducks and flew away. 
Another old writer, referring to this tree, says :— 
“In Scotland we found trees which produce fruit 
rolled up in leaves, and this, in due time falling 
i rted 
1887, 
into water which it overhangs, is conve 
to a living bird, and he tree is 
called the Goose-tree.” Gerard seems to have 
had a strong belief in the Goose-tree, and 
gives a long account of it, wherein he.says that 
a kind of “ spume or froth ” is found on broken 
pointed, and of a whitish colour, wherein is con- 
ран а thing in forme like a lace of silke finely 
‚аз it were, together, of a whitish colour; 
one wm whereof is fastened unto the inside of the 
shell, even as the fish of oisters and muskles are ; 
the other end is made fast unto the belly of a 
de mass or lumpe, which in time cometh to the 
shape and forme of a bird. When it is perfectly 
formed the shell gapeth open, and the first 
thing that appeareth is the aforesaid lace or 
shell by degrees till at length it is all come forth 
and hangeth only by the bill; space 
after it cometh to full maturitie and falleth into 
the sea, where it gathereth feathers and groweth 
> a fowle bigger than a mallard and lesser than 
, having blacke legs, and bill or beake 
and feathers blacke, and white spotted in such a 
anner as is our magpie, called in some places a 
далайн, which the people of Lancashire call by 
no other name than the goose: which place 
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