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The Folk-lore of Plants
·
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer
264
"Up
she
got
upon
a
wall,
Attempted
down
to
slide
withal;
But
the
silken
twist
untied,
She
fell,
and,
bruised,
she
died.
Love,
in
pity
to
the
deed,
And
her
loving
luckless
speed,
Twined
her
to
this
plant
we
call
Now
the
'flower
of
the
wall.'"
The
tea-tree
in
China,
from
its
marked
effect
on
the
human
constitution,
has
long
been
an
agent
of
superstition,
and
been
associated
with
the
following
legend,
quoted
by
Schleiden.
It
seems
that
a
devout
and
pious
hermit
having,
much
against
his
will,
been
overtaken
by
sleep
in
the
course
of
his
watchings
and
prayers,
so
that
his
eyelids
had
closed,
tore
them
from
his
eyes
and
threw
them
on
the
ground
in
holy
wrath.
But
his
act
did
not
escape
the
notice
of
a
certain
god,
who
caused
a
tea-shrub
to
spring
out
from
them,
the
leaves
of
which
exhibit,
"the
form
of
an
eyelid
bordered
with
lashes,
and
possess
the
gift
of
hindering
sleep."
Sir
George
Temple,
in
his
"Excursions
in
the
Mediterranean,"
mentions
a
legend
relative
to
the
origin
of
the
geranium.
It
is
said
that
the
prophet
Mohammed
having
one
day
washed
his
shirt,
threw
it
upon
a
mallow
plant
to
dry;
but
when
it
was
afterwards
taken
away,
its
sacred
contact
with
the
mallow
was
found
to
have
changed
the
plant
into
a
fine
geranium,
which
now
for
the
first
time
came
into
existence.
Footnotes:
1.
"Plant-Lore
Legends
and
Lyrics."
2.
Folkard's
"Plant
Lore
Legends
and
Lyrics,"
p.
430.
3.
"Sacred
Trees
and
Flowers,"
Quarterly
Review,
cxiv.
239.
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