Christopher s Herb ” Now, as we know St. Christopher was the 
patron Saint of Watermen, and probably of Water-plants, so 
St. Osmund might be equally venerated under like circum¬ 
stances, could we know more of his history than is handed 
down to us; and a Saint of that name did come over from 
Normandy in 1066 with William the Conqueror, and one of 
some celebrity too, for he was made Chancellor of the kingdom, 
and Bishop of Salisbury, where “ he reformed the liturgy for 
the diocese, which afterwards became general throughout the 
kingdom, under the name of the Salisbury Liturgy.” Such a 
Saint deserved to have his name handed down to posterity in 
so truly noble a British Fern. 
Plate 45. Pig. 1, 2, 3, portions of a fertile frond of Osmunda regalis , Linn.:— 
natural size. 5. A capsule. 6. Seeds or spores :— magnified. 
