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touch them, and they moulder all to black ashes, like soote, 
boath for looks and smell.” 
Milton makes the fallen angels, changed to serpents, when 
their penance was aggravated by an image of the forbidden 
tree, pluck greedily 
“ The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew 
Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed; 
This, more delusive, not the touch, hut taste 
Deceived; they, fondly thinking to allay 
Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit 
Chewed bitter ashes, which the offended taste 
With spattering noise rejected; oft they essayed, 
Hunger and thirst constraining; drugged as oft, 
With hatefulest disrelish writhed their jaws, 
With soot and cinders filled; so oft they fell 
Into the same illusion.” 
Par. Lost, Book X. 
Arum, TVnlterobin, Wild Turnip, iTack-lu thc T*uIp11. Arum 
maculatum. 
This curious plant, found blooming in May in wet, shady 
places, bears spikes of scarlet berries late in the summer. 
The name arum is said to come from its leaves, shaped like 
an arrow or dart. The root, when fresh, contains a milky 
juice, very acrid, which is used in medicine as a stimulant. 
The acrimony is dissipated by drying and the application of 
heat, when the substance of the root becomes a bland farina¬ 
ceous matter resembling arrow-root. Powdered it is said to 
have a saponaceous quality. It is also used by the Parisians, 
under the name of cypress powder, as a cosmetic for the 
fkin. 
