CHAPTER XI.

FABULOUS, WONDROUS, AND MIRACULOUS PLANTS. -- Human Trees -- Man-bearing Trees -- The Wak-Wak, or Tree bearing Human Heads -- Chinese and Indian Bird-bearing Tree -- Duck-bearing Tree -- The Barnacle, or Goose Tree -- The Serpent-bearing Tree -- The Oyster-bearing Tree -- The Animal-bearing Tree -- The Butterfly-bearing Tree -- The Vegetable Lamb -- The Lamb-bearing Tree -- Marvellous Trees and Plants -- Vegetable Monstrosities -- Plants bearing Inscriptions and Figures -- Miraculous Plants -- The Tree of St. Thomas -- The Withered Tree of the Sun -- The Tree of Tiberias -- Father Garnet’s Straw 116