St. Benedict’s herbs are the Avens, the Hemlock, and the Valerian, which were assigned to him as being antidotes; a legend of the saint relating that upon his blessing a cup of poisoned wine, which a monk had presented to him to destroy him, the glass was shivered to pieces. To St. Gerard was dedicated the _Ægopodium Podagraria_, because it was customary to invoke the saint against the gout, for which this plant was esteemed a remedy. St. Christopher has given his name to the Baneberry (_Actæa spicata_), the Osmund Fern (_Osmunda regalis_), the Fleabane (_Pulicaria dysenterica_), and, according to old herbalists, to several other plants, including _Betonica officinalis_, _Vicia Cracca_ and _Sepium_, _Gnaphalium germanicum_, _Spiræa ulmaria_, two species of Wolf’s Bane, &c. St. George has numerous plants named after or dedicated to him. In England his flower is the Harebell, but abroad the Peony is generally called after him. His name is also bestowed on the _Lilium convallium_. The Herb of St. George is the _Valeriana sativa_; his root, _Dentaria major_; his Violet, _Leucoium luteum_; his fruit, _Cucumis agrestis_. In Asia Minor the tree of St. George is the Carob. The _Eryngium_ was dedicated to St. Francis under the name of St. Francis’s Thorn. _Bunium flexuosum_, is St. Anthony’s nut--a pig-nut, because he is the patron of pigs; and _Senecio Jacobæa_ is St. James’s Wort (the saint of horses and colts)--used in veterinary practice. The Cowslip is dedicated to St. Peter, as Herb Peter of the old herbals, from some resemblance which it has to his emblem--a bunch of keys. As the patron of fishermen, _Crithmum maritimum_, which grows on sea-cliffs, was dedicated to this saint, and called in Italian San Pietro, in French Saint Pierre, and in English Samphire. Most of these saintly names were, however, given to the plants because their day of flowering is connected with the festival of the saint. Hence _Hypericum guadrangulare_ is the St. Peter’s Wort of the modern floras, from its flowering on the 29th of June. The Daisy, as Herb Margaret, is popularly supposed to be dedicated to “Margaret that was so meek and mild;” probably from its blossoming about her day, the 22nd of February: in reality, however, the flower derived its name from St. Margaret of Cortona. _Barbarea vulgaris_, growing in the winter, is St. Barbara’s Cress, her day being the fourth of December, old style; and _Centaurea solstitialis_ derives its Latin specific, and its popular name, St. Barnaby’s Thistle, from its flourishing on the longest day, the 11th of June, old style, which is now the 22nd. _Nigella damascena_, whose persistent styles spread out like the spokes of a wheel, is named Katharine’s flower, after St. Katharine, who suffered martyrdom on a wheel. The Cranesbill is called Herb Robert, in honour of St. Robert, Abbot of Molesme and founder of the Cistercian Order. The Speedwell is St. Paul’s Betony. Archangel is a name given to one