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CONTENTS 
Chapter XVL — 
Forget-me-not — Haunts of Country Children 
— Islets on the Streams — Use of For- 
get-me-not hy the Germans — Field of 
W aterloo— Various Names of the For- 
get-me-not — Hairs on Plants — Ejfect 
of Accurate Investigations on Mental 
Habits — Borage — Heliotrope, ... 757 
Chapter XVII.— 
Hyacinth — Oriental Hyacinth - — Colours of 
F' lowers — Plants reared in Water — 
Fable of the Ancients respecting the 
Hyacinth — Wild Hyacinth — Star of 
Bethleheyn — Asphodel, ... ... 165 
Chapter XVIII.— 
Convolvulus — Eglantine — Climbing Plants — 
Peculiarity of Twining Plants — Large 
White Bindweed — Smaller Bindweed 
— Seaside Convolvulus — Garden Con- 
volvuluses — Sweet Potato — Dodder — 
Parasitic Plants, ... ... ... lyi 
Chapter XIX.— 
Henna — Gardens in the East — Uses of Henna 
in Eastern Countries — Garden Balsam 
— Purple Loose-strife— Black Saltwort 180 
Chapter XX. — 
Orchis — Bee - Ophrys — Fly - Ophrys • — 
— Climbing Orchises — Butterfly-Or- 
chis — Epidendrum — Air -Orchis — 
Orchideous Plants, ... ... ... 186 
Chapter XXL — 
Bell-flowers — Heath-land — Heath-flowers 
— Hare - bell — Different Forms of 
Leaves on the same Plamt — Nettle- 
leaved Bell-flower — Giant Bell-flower 
— Rampion — Pyramidal Bell-flower — 
Venus's Looking-glass, ... ... ig2 
Chapter XXII. — 
Aloe — Agave — Hedges formed of this Plant — 
Uses of Agave — Bridges made of 
Agave Fibre — Use of Agave in Manu- 
facture of Paper — Ancient Mexican 
Manuscript — Pulq^ue made from the 
