AN ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF SIX HUNDRED PLANTS, ENGLISH AND FOREIGN, giving their Myths, Legends, Traditions, Folk-Lore, Symbolism, and History 205 List of Illustrations. GATHERING THE SELAGO (_drawn by Louis Absolon_) Cover. THE GARDEN OF EDEN (_Parkinson’s Paradisus_) Frontispiece. YGGDRASILL, THE MUNDANE ASH (_Finn Magnusen_) 2 RELICS OF THE CRUCIFIXION (_Maundevile’s Travels_) 45 THE TREE OF JUDAS ISCARIOT (_Maundevile’s Travels_) 49 THE BARNACLE TREE (_Aldrovandi Ornithologia_) 118 THE GOOSE TREE (_Gerarde’s Herbal_) 119 THE BAROMETZ, OR VEGETABLE LAMB (_Zahn_) 121 THE LAMB TREE (_Maundevile’s Travels_) 122 DEAD SEA FRUIT (_Maundevile’s Travels_) 125 THE STONE TREE (_Gerarde’s Herbal_) 126 ARBOR SECCO, OR THE WITHERED TREE (_Maundevile’s Travels_) 131 THE MIRACULOUS TREE OF TIBERIAS (_Maundevile’s Travels_) 132 FATHER GARNET’S STRAW (_Apology of Eudæmon Joannes_) 135 PIOUS BIRDS AND OLIVES (_Maundevile’s Travels_) 143 THE PASSION FLOWER OF THE JESUITS (_Parkinson’s Paradisus_) 182 THE TREE OF DEATH (_Maundevile’s Travels_) 190 THE GRANADILLA, OR PASSION FLOWER (_Zahn_) 487 The head and tail pieces on pp. xiii., xxiv., 1, 8, 20, 21, 26, 40, 64, 74, 116, 136, 164, 175, 200, 592, and 610, are reproductions from originals in old herbals, &c. Part the First. [Headpiece] INTRODUCTION.