FABULOUS, WONDROUS, AND MIRACULOUS PLANTS. -- Human Trees -- Man-bearing Trees -- The Wak-Wak, or Tree bearing Human Heads -- Chinese and Indian Bird-bearing Tree -- Duck-bearing Tree -- The Barnacle, or Goose Tree -- The Serpent-bearing Tree -- The Oyster-bearing Tree -- The Animal-bearing Tree -- The Butterfly-bearing Tree -- The Vegetable Lamb -- The Lamb-bearing Tree -- Marvellous Trees and Plants -- Vegetable Monstrosities -- Plants bearing Inscriptions and Figures -- Miraculous Plants -- The Tree of St. Thomas -- The Withered Tree of the Sun -- The Tree of Tiberias -- Father Garnet’s Straw 116 CHAPTER XII. PLANTS CONNECTED WITH BIRDS AND ANIMALS. -- Seed-sowing Birds -- Birds as Almanacks -- The Cuckoo and the Cherry Tree -- Augury by Cock and Barley -- The Nightingale and the Rose -- The Robin and the Thorn -- The Missel-Thrush and Mistletoe -- The Swallow and Celandine -- The Hawk and Hawkweed -- Life-giving Herb -- The Woodpecker and the Peony -- The Spring-wort and the Birds -- Choughs and Olives -- Herb of the Blessed Virgin Mary -- The Eyebright and Birds -- Plants named after Birds and Animals 136 CHAPTER XIII. THE DOCTRINE OF PLANT SIGNATURES. -- Illustrations and Examples of the Signatures and Characterisms of Plants -- The Diseases Cured by Herbs -- General Rules of the System of Plant Signatures supposed to Reveal the Occult Powers and Virtues of Vegetables -- Plants Identified with the Various Portions of the Human Body -- The Old Herbals and Herbalists -- Extraordinary Properties attributed to Herbs 154 CHAPTER XIV. PLANTS AND THE PLANETS. -- When to Pluck Herbs -- The Plants of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury, the Sun, and the Moon -- Sun Flowers -- The Influence of the Moon on Plants -- Times and Seasons to Sow and Plant -- The Moon and Gardening Operations -- The Moon-Tree -- Plants of the Moon-Goddesses -- The Man in the Moon 164 CHAPTER XV. PLANT SYMBOLISM AND LANGUAGE. -- Plant Emblems of the Ancients -- The Science of Plant Symbolism -- Floral Symbols of the Scriptures -- The Passion Flower, or Flower of the Five Wounds -- Mediæval Plant Symbolism -- Floral Emblems of Shakspeare -- The Language of Flowers -- Floral Vocabulary of the Greeks and Romans -- A Dictionary of Flowers -- Floral Divination 176 CHAPTER XVI. FUNERAL PLANTS. -- The Ancient Death-Gods -- The Elysian Fields -- Death Trees -- Funereal Trees -- Aloe, Yew, Cypress, Bay, Arbor-Vitæ, Walnut, Mountain Ash, Tamarisk -- The Decorations of Tombs -- Flowers at Funerals -- Old English Burial Customs -- Funeral Pyres -- Embalming -- Mummies -- Plants as Death Portents 189 _PART THE SECOND._