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4 Coryllus avellana, fl*

5 Heileborus fœtidus , fl.

6 Tortala rigida, fr.

8 Tremella deliquescens , fr. (* 11 Bryum hornum , fr»

13 Taxas baccata, fl.

— Veronica arvensis, fl.

16 Laniium purpureum , fl,

madeGoatsbeard; Passion Flower, now Passiflore; Lent Lilly, now Daffodii ; Canterbury Bells , so called in honour of St. Augustine, but now made into Campanule; Cursed Thistle , now Carduus, besides Arckangel , Apple, of Jérusalem, St. PauVs Botany , Basil , Herb Si, Barbe , Herb St. Barbara , Bishopweed, Herba Cbristi, Herba Benedicta, Herb St. Margaret , erroneously converted into La Belle Marguerite ; God's Flower, Flos Jotîs; Job* s Tears , Our Lady's Laces , Our Lady's Mantle , Our Lady's Slipper , Monk's Hood , Friar's Cowl, St Peter' s Herb, Bean ofSt. Ignatus , Je suif s Bark and a bundred more sucb : — Go into any garden , I say , and tbese cames will remind every one at once of the knowledge of plants possessed by tbe Monks, most of tbem having been aamed after the Festivals and Saints' Days on wbicb their natural timeof blowing happened to occur ; and others were so called , from the tendency of tbe minds of the Religious Orders of those days to couvert every thing into a mémento ofsacred History , and the holy Religion u>hich toe profess.

i) Cette brillante espèce est vulgairement dite St.-Ooul's Lampschen , .c'est-à-dire lampe de St« Gudule, évidemment parce qu'elle paraît ver? la fête de cette sainte.

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17 Anémone coronarium, fl.

19 Laraium album, fl.

21 Helleborus niger, fl.

22 Draba verna,û\

25 Helleborus byemalis , fl. (l 29 Osmunda lunaria , fr.

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