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"The sunflower turns on her god when he sets The same look which she did when he rose." Such a flower, writes Mr. Ellacombe, was ...

Fennel was in olden times generally considered an inflammatory herb, and hence to eat "conger and fennel" was to eat two high an ...

spring, in which it blossoms, it has been regarded as symbolical of the return of happiness, whilst its delicate perfume has lon ...

flowers in the hedge, and exclaimed, "Here is the periwinkle still in flower." Thirty years afterwards the sight of the periwink ...

CHAPTER XV. FABULOUS PLANTS. The curious traditions of imaginary plants found amongst most nations have partly a purely mytholog ...

to believe it; so very prevalent is the prodigious and absurd with some part of mankind. Among the more sensible and experienced ...

head, feet, and wings, but they had no feathers; some of them were perfect shapen fowls. At last, the people having this tree ea ...

Among some of the many other equally wonderful plants may be mentioned the "stony wood," which is thus described by Gerarde:-- " ...

Kookh:":--"His voice was sweet, as if he had chewed the leaves of that enchanted tree which grows over the tomb of the musician ...

Alas! what lock or iron engine is't, That can thy subtle secret strength resist, Still the best farrier cannot set a shoe So sur ...

accomplish his purpose, as if he did it himself, he would shortly die." Moore gives this warning:-- "The phantom shapes--oh, tou ...

peculiarity. Stories of this kind remind us of similar wonders recorded by Sir John Maundeville, as having been seen by him in t ...

CHAPTER XVI. DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES. The old medical theory, which supposed that plants by their external character indicated th ...

men than designed by Nature to signify, or point out, any such virtues, or qualities, as they would make us believe." His views, ...

said by the Chinese and North American Indians to possess certain virtues which were deduced from the shape of the root, suppose ...

"Chamberlain. Nay, by my faith, I think you are more beholding to the night than to fern-seed for your walking invisible." In Be ...

But referring to the doctrine of signatures in folk-medicine, a favourite garden flower is Solomon's seal (Polygonatum multiflor ...

body, we are confronted with a list adapted for most of the ills to which the flesh is heir. [17] Thus, the walnut was regarded ...

therewith." For improving the complexion, an ointment made of cowslip-flowers was once recommended, because, as an old writer ob ...

a most powerful deterrent. For the same reason, the aspen, from its constant trembling, has been held a specific for this diseas ...