CHAPTER VIII.

PLANTS OF THE DEVIL. -- Puck’s Plant -- Pixie-stools -- Loki’s Plants -- The Trolls and the Globe-flower -- Accursed and Unlucky Plants -- Plants connected with the Black Art -- Plant-haunting Demons -- The Devil and Fruit Trees -- Tree Demons on St. John’s Eve -- Demons of the Woods and Fields -- The Herb of the Devil -- Poisonous and Noxious Plants -- Ill-omened Plants -- The Devil’s Key -- Plants Inimical to the Devil -- The Devil-Chaser -- The Deadly Upas -- The Manchineel -- The Oleander -- The Jatropha Urens -- The Lotos -- The Elder -- The Phallus Impudicus -- The Carrion Flower -- The Antchar -- The Loco or Rattle Weed -- The Aquapura -- Deadly Trees of Hispaniola and New Andalusia -- Poisonous Plants 82