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._

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.

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