It flashes out conspicuous with all the virtue and beauty of a Maple,Acer rubrum.

Among further names also associated with the sow may be included the sow-fennel, sow-grass, and sow-foot, while the sow-bane (Chenopodium rubrum), is so termed from being, as Parkinson tells us, "found certain to kill swine.

Atque per has Insulas quoddam rubrum mare à mari

RED MAPLE (Acer rubrum).

D. Mezereum autumnale and D. Mezereum atro-rubrum are likewise interesting and beautiful forms.

"Vult dicere Benedictus quod miraculosius fuit Jordanem converti retrorsum, et Mare Rubrum aperiri per medium, quam si Deus succurreret et provideret istis malis.

Volto ritrorso; scilicet, versus ortum suum, vel contra: el mar fugire; idest, et Mare Rubrum fugere hinc inde, quando fecit viam populo Dei, qui transivit sicco pede: fu qui mirabile a vedere; idest, miraculosius, chel soccorso que, idest, quam esset mirabile succursum divinum hic venturum ad puniendos perversos."

[107] "Et irritaverunt ascendentes in mare, Mare rubrum.

This, I think, should have been "Mare Rubrum," with two capitals.

The A. Negundo Variegata has silvery variegated leaves, which contrast effectively with dark foliage, Campestre Colchicum Rubrum, with its bright crimson palmate leaves, is very ornamental, as is also Negundo Californicum Aurem, with its golden-yellow foliage.

Cardium rubrum ?

This shell agrees in general form, teeth, and colour, with the Cardium rubrum of Montagu, but it is larger.

658 Empetrum rubrum Red Crow Berry b.m. 659 Hippophaë canadensis Canada Sea Buck-thorn b.l.s.

MARE RUBRUM.