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genuine the purely arbitrary allotment of certain plants to certain 
saints which we find in Hone’s ‘ Everyda k,’ Weale’s ‘ Flores 
Keclesiz,’ and later writers; and he also quotes in full the spurious 
antique by T. Forster which begins— 
‘** The snowdrop in purest white arraie 
First rears her head on Candlemas Daie.”* 
It is to be regretted that so able a writer should lend his authority 
to the propagation of these absurd dedications. Here and there 
we come upon a puzzling slip, as when we read (p. 148), ‘“ The 
Avens (Gewm urbanum), also called Wild Rye and Way Bennett”; 
or that “the Marygold comes in at the Annunciation ” (p. 108); 
Another irritating custom--which Mr. Friend, knowing how 
desirable it is to be able to verify quotations, ought not to support 
- . riter,”’ sha 
learned writer,” “an old writer,” and the like; or placing them 
h 
us that the name of Passion Sunday “is indelibly impressed 
upon the Passion-flower,” which is not the case; then quotes one 
“ The Passion-flower long has blow’d 
To betoken us signs of the Holy Rood.” 
d te for 
Turner’s characteristic remarks on this subject can hardly have 
escaped Mr. Friend’s notice. He quotes quite seriously ‘‘a prover t 
still current in the north of England, to the effect that ‘ He tha 
It is perhaps worth while to point out that this constantly quoted git 
first appeared in 'T. Forster’s ‘ Perennial Calendar’ (1824), p. 107, followed ork 
reference to “ Anthol. Austr. et Bor.” (Anthologia Australis et Borealis)—® ¥°"" 
which never existed. -400)— 
ere seems some awkwardness of expression in the passage (p- names 
“ Freyja and Mary are in many respects to be regarded as but different ' 
for one and the same mythological personage”! 
