The tiny Mouse, like the majestic Lion, is represented in the vegetable kingdom by several plants. From the shape of the leaves, _Hieracium Pilosella_ is known as Mouse Ear, _Cerastium vulgare_, Mouse Ear Chickweed, and _Myosotis palustris_, or Forget-Me-Not, Mouse Ear Scorpion Grass. _Myosurus minimus_, from the shape of its slender seed-spike, is called Mouse Tail; and _Alopecurus agrestis_, Mouse Tail Grass. _Hordeum marinum_ is Mouse Barley. Swine plants are numerous. We have the Swine Bane, Sow Bane, or Pig Weed (_Chenopodium rubrum_), a herb which, according to Parkinson, was “found certain to kill Swine.” The Pig Nut (_Bunium flexuosum_) is so called from its tubers being a favourite food of Pigs. Sow Bread (_Cyclamen Europæum_) has obtained its name for a similar reason; and Swine’s Grass (_Polygonum aviculare_) is so called because Swine are believed to be fond of it. _Hyoseris minima_ is Swine Succory, and _Senebiera Coronopus_, Swine’s Cress. For possession of the Dandelion, the Pig enters the lists with the Lion, and claims the flower as the Swine’s Snout, on account of the form of its receptacle. According to Du Bartas, Swine, when affected with the spleen, seek relief by eating the Spleenwort or Miltwaste (_Asplenium Ceterach_), “The Finger-Fern, which being given to Swine, It makes their milt to melt away in fine.” De Gubernatis states that the god Indra is thought to have taken the form of a Goat, and he gives a long list of Indian plants named after Sheep and Goats. The Ram, He-Goat, and Lamb, called _Mesha_, also give their names, in Sanscrit, to different plants. In England, _Rumex Acetosella_ is Sheep’s Sorrel, _Chærophyllum temulum_ Sheep’s Parsley, _Jasione montana_ Sheep’s-Bit-Scabious, and _Hydrocotyle vulgaris_, or White Rot, Sheep’s Bane, from its character of poisoning Sheep. The Squirrel, although a denizen of the woods, only claims one plant, _Hordeum maritimum_, which, from the shape of its flower-spike, has obtained the name of Squirrel Tail. The Elephant has a whole series of Indian trees and plants dedicated to him, which are enumerated by De Gubernatis; the _Bignonia suaveolens_ is called the Elephant’s Tree; and certain Cucumbers, Pumpkins, and Gourds are named after him. The Wolf, in India, gives its name to the _Colypea hernandifolia_, and Wolf’s Eye is a designation given to the _Ipomœa Turpethum_. Among the Germans, the Wolf becomes, under the several names of _Graswolf_, _Kornwolf_, _Roggenwolf_, and _Kartoffelwolf_, a demon haunting fields and crops. In our own country, the _Euphorbia_, from its acrid, milky juice, is called Wolf’s Milk; the _Lycopodium clavatum_ is the Wolf’s Claw, and the _Aconitum Lycoctonum_ is Wolf’s Bane, a name it obtained in olden times when hunters were in the habit of poisoning with the juice of this plant the baits of flesh they laid for Wolves.