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Why do the Welsh wear a daffodil on St. David's Day and the Irish a shamrock for St. Patrick? Why do we send flowers to weddings and funerals or kiss under the mistletoe? From elderflower tea (`a universal panacea') to lesser yellow trefoil (the true shamrock), from corn dollies and cropcircles to plants which forecast the weather (pennywort and scarlet pimpernel), this dictionary is a vivid and colorful account of British and Irish plant-lore. * Superstitions and herbal remedies, to folk song and children's games * Folk-names in use today never previously recorded
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- ISBN 10 0198600151
- ISBN 13 9780198600152
- BindingPaperback
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A Dictionary of Plant Lore
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Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1995
ISBN 10: 0198600151
ISBN 13: 9780198600152
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. xi, 437 pages, bibliography, index of scientific names. Provides an informative and vivid account of the ethnobotany of the British Isles, covering all aspects of plant-lore. Seller Inventory # 006910
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