Mary’s half hour was now spent. The minute-hand of Molly’s great clock pointed to half-past three. Mamma expected her and papa home by four; so, tying on her bonnet, she bade Molly and Jane good-bye, and followed by Sam, with a bundle of palms for her brothers, she set out gaily on her walk home, gathering fresh flowers for her own flower-pot, and arranging the new things she had learned that day in her little head, by the help of a question to papa every now and then about citrons, myrtles, willows, and palms. BOTANICAL NAMES OF LITTLE MARY’S FLOWERS. March Violet _Viola Odorata_ Primrose _Primula Vulgaris_ Cowslip _Primula Veris_ Pilewort _Ranunculus Ficuria_ Lady’s-smocks _Cardamine Pratensis_ Wood Sorrel _Oxalis Acetosella_ Pasque Flower _Anemone Pulsatilla_ White Wood Anemone _Anemone Nemerosa_ Adder’s Tongue _Ophioglossum Vulgaris_ Sallow _Salix Aquatica_. MEDICINAL USES ACKNOWLEDGED BY LINDLEY IN HIS “FLORA MEDICA, 1838.” VIOLET.—Flowers anodyne, and roots emetic. Used in the Grand Seignor’s Sherbet. COWSLIP.—Pleasant sedative, particularly in wine. PILEWORT.—Very acrid. Used sometimes for blisters, or for drawing-plaisters, but with great caution. LADY’S-SMOCKS.—Lindley does not seem to know its use in agues, but says it is a popular remedy for falling-sickness in children. WOOD SORREL.—A cooling drink in fevers. WOOD ANEMONE.—The pulsatilla very acrid, and those who rub down the powder vomit and are affected with colic if they do not use a veil. Used in very small doses for complaints on the lungs. The Anemone Nemerosa is much milder. Both have been used by country people, in various ways, often with good effect; but sometimes producing much mischief. SALLOW.—The bark of many willows is an effectual substitute for cinchona or Jesuit’s bark. A substance called Salicine is produced from it, used with effect instead of Sulphate of Quinia.—_Lindley_. Willow bark contains a good deal of tannin.—_Hatchet_. Next to oak-bavin, willow sprays peeled make the best charcoal for gunpowder. * * * * * THE END. * * * * * Printed by W. Birch, High Street, Kensington. FOOTNOTES. {5} Though old Molly did not know it, just about the time she was speaking, some gentlemen began to examine the sallow bark with more attention than it had met with before. And they procured a medicine from it called salicine, which seems to have the same properties as the quinine, which is made from Jesuit’s bark. {9} Little Mary’s friend Mr. Brown told her afterwards, that the only place in Europe where the climate and soil is sufficiently favourable to the palm for dates to ripen is Valencia; and that the palm-trees there had been originally planted for the purposes of the church.