Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. GLOBE-FLOWER.—IMPRESSIONS OF LEAVES.—MARSH-MARIGOLD.— NATIVE CAPERS.—THE GOWAN.—HELLEBORE.—CHRISTMAS ROSE: ITS POISONOUS QUALITIES.—ITALIAN POISON COMPOUNDERS SPOKEN OF BY SHAKSPEARE.—COLUMBINE OR DOVE-PLANT.— BARBERRY ; FICTION IMPUTES TO IT GIVING RED-RUST TO WHEAT. IRRITABILITY OF ITS STAMENS, AND OTHER CURIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO IT. The next genus of the order Ranunculus with which we meet, is " Trollius," so called by Conrad Gesner, because the flower is a sphere, and the German word Trolen, means round. To "troll," which may be translated to "trundle," sing or send round, was a word in general use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Caliban says in the Tempest— " Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch You taught me, but while ere?" Our Irish species the Trollius europseus, is, as its specific name indicates, distributed over the temperate parts of Europe. It is not a wild plant in the province of Munster; but is to be found in most gardens, where it is perhaps a Little coarsely herbaceous for high finish and select floriculture ; in a grove it is an admirable decoration, as its size is not out of keeping with shrubs and trees. The making a collection of portraits of leaves is an agreeable amusement; and those that are crowfoot-formed answer well for this purpose. Of course the pencil producesthe highest order of work in delineations; but there is an extemporaneous method of getting up a Leaf-Picture Cabinet, which requires only a little neatness and patience to be effectual. Lampblack and sweet oil rubbed together make the printing ink, which is to be smoothly painted on stout paper ; on this, carefully expand the leaf you want to copy; its most nerve-marked side being undermost; cover your work with a protecting bit of tissue-pap...