CHAPTER X.

MAGICAL PLANTS. -- Plants producing Ecstasies and Visions -- Soma -- Laurel -- The Druids and Mistletoe -- Prophetic Oaks -- Dream Plants -- Plants producing Love and Sympathy -- The Sorcerer’s Violet -- Plants used for Love Divination -- Concordia -- Discordia -- The Calumny Destroyer -- The Grief Charmer -- The Sallow, Sacred Basil, Eugenia, Onion, Bay, Juniper, Peony, Hypericum, Rowan, Elder, Thorn, Hazel, Holly -- The Mystic Fern-seed -- Four-leaved Clover -- The Mandrake, or Sorcerer’s Root -- The Metal Melter -- The Misleading Plant -- Herb of Oblivion -- Lotos Tree -- King Solomon’s Magical Herb Baharas -- The Nyctilopa and Springwort -- Plants influencing Thunder and Lightning -- The Selago, or Druid’s Golden Herb -- Gold-producing Plants -- Plants which disclose Treasures -- The Luck Flower -- The Key-Flower -- Sesame -- The Herb that Opens -- The Moonwort, or Lunary -- The Sferracavallo -- Magic Wands and Divining Rods -- Moses’ Rod 105