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that its berries will cure all diseases ; and Mathiolus, that its virtues are too nu-merous to mention. Turner says that, in England, the juniper “ groweth mostplenteouslie in Kent : it groweth, also, in the bisshopryche of Durram, and inNorthumberlande. It groweth in Germany in greate plentye, but in noplace in greater than a lyttle from Bon; where, at the time of year thefeldefares fede only of junipers berries, the people eate the feldefaresundrawen, with guttes and all, because they are full of the berries ofjuniper.” (Names of Herbes, &c., fol. 25.) The juniper is treated of at lengthin both Gerard and Parkinson, who enumerate a great many virtues belongingto it. In the Highlands, it is the badge of the clan Murray.

Poetical Allusions, $c. The ancients consecrated this shrub to the Furies,and threw its berries on the funeral pile, to protect the departing spirit fromevil influences. They also offered it in sacrifice to the Infernal Gods, to