and sense.--_Alphonse Karr_.

[078] The Abbe Molina in his History of Chili mentions a species of
basil which he calls _ocymum salinum_: he says it resembles the common
basil, except that the stalk is round and jointed; and that though it
grows sixty miles from the sea, yet every morning it is covered with
saline globules, which are hard and splendid, appearing at a distance
like dew; and that each plant furnishes about an ounce of fine salt
every day, which the peasants collect and use as common salt, but esteem
it superior in flavour.--_Notes to Darwin's Loves of the Plants_.

[079] The Dutch are a strange people and of the most heterogeneous
composition. They have an odd mixture in their nature of the coldest
utilitarianism and the most extravagant romance. A curious illustration
of this is furnished in their tulipomania, in which there was a struggle
between the love of the substantial and the love of the beautiful. One
of their authors enumerates the following articles as equivalent in
money value to the price of one tulip root--"two lasts of wheat--four
lasts of rye--four fat oxen--eight fat swine--twelve fat sheep--two
hogsheads of wine--four tons of butter--one thousand pounds of cheese--a
complete bed--a suit of clothes--and a silver drinking cup."

[080] _Maun_, must

[081] _Stoure_, dust

[082] _Weet_, wetness, rain

[083] _Glinted_, peeped

[084] _Wa's_, walls.

[085] _Bield_, shelter

[086] _Histie_, dry

[087] _Stibble field_, a field covered with stubble--the stalks of corn
left by the reaper.

[088] _The origin of the Daisy_--When Christ was three years old his
mother wished to twine him a birthday wreath. But as no flower was
growing out of doors on Christmas eve, not in all the promised land, and
as no made up flowers were to be bought, Mary resolved to prepare a
flower herself. To this end she took a piece of bright yellow silk which
had come down to her from David, and ran into the same, thick threads of
white silk, thread by thread, and while thus engaged, she pricked her
finger with the needle, and the pure blood stained some of the threads
with crimson, whereat the little child was much affected. But when the
winter was past and the rains were come and gone, and when spring came
to strew the earth with flowers, and the fig tree began to put forth her
green figs and the vine her buds, and when the voice or the turtle was
heard in the land, then came Christ and took the tender plant w