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• Plants -- Japan
• Folklore -- Japan

• The Flowers and Gardens of Japan (London: A. and C. Black, 1908), by Florence Du Cane, illust. by Ella Du Cane
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• The Folk-Lore of Plants, by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (Gutenberg text)
• Flowers and Their Associations (London: C. Knight, 1840), by Anne Pratt (page images at Google)
• The Mistletoe and its Philosophy: Shewing its History, The Origin of its Mystical and Religious Rites; Why This Weird Plant Was Preferably Chosen to Others; Its Legendary Connection with the Great World Reformer, Rama; Along With a Description of Several Rare Plants and Herbs That Possess Mystical Properties (Loudsville, GA: P. Davidson; Glasgow: B. Goodwin, 1898), by P. Davidson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flore populaire (Paris, Librairie Rolland [etc.], 1896), by Eugène Rolland and Henri Gaidoz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flora & folk lore of Shakespeare (E. J. Burrow & co., ltd., 1923), by Frederick G. Savage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Folklore and odysseys of food and medicinal plants (Tudor Pub. Co., 1962), by Ernst Lehner and Johanna Lehner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flora symbolica; or, The language and sentiment of flowers. Including floral poetry, original and selected. (F. W. Warne and co., 1869), by John H. Ingram (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of flowers (Smith, Elder, 1909), by Katharine Tynan and Frances Maitland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The glory of the garden (A. & C. Black, ltd., 1923), by M. G. Kennedy-Bell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Notes on Jamaican ethnobotany (Vassar College, 1927), by Martha Warren Beckwith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tree lore (C.H. Kelly, 1912), by Francis George Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der alraun, ein beitrag zur pflanzensagenkunde (J. H. Furst company, 1917), by Taylor Starck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unsere heilpflanzen, ihre geschichte und ihre stellung in der volkskunde; ethnobotanische streifzüge (T. Fisher, 1922), by Heinrich Marzell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Plant lore, legends, and lyries. Embracing the myths, traditions, superstitions, and folk-lore of the plant kingdom. (S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1884), by Richard Folkard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers and flower lore (S. Sonnenschein and co., ltd., 1892), by Hilderic Friend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Pflanzenwelt in der griechischen Mythologie (Wagnerische Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1890), by Josef Murr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire et légendes des plantes utiles et curieuses (Didot frères, fils et cie, 1869), by Jean Pierre Rambosson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Myths and legends of flowers, trees, fruits, and plants in all ages and in all climes (J. B. Lippincott company, 1913), by Charles M. Skinner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Flora historica : or, The three seasons of the British parterre historically and botanically treated : with observations on planting, to secure a regular succession of flowers from the commencement of spring to the end of autumn (E. Lloyd & son, 1829), by Henry Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers and flower-gardens. (D'Rozario and co., 1855), by David Lester Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der alraun, ein beitgrag zur pflanzensagenkunde (J. H. Furst company, 1917), by Taylor Starck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shokubutsu yōi kō. (Oka Shoin, 1925), by Mitsutarō Shirai (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folklore and symbolism of flowers, plants and trees (Tudor Pub. Co., 1960), by Ernst Lehner and Johanna Lehner (page images at HathiTrust)
• La mythologie des plantes; ou, Les légendes du règne végétal. (C. Reinwald, 1878), by Angelo de Gubernatis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The language of flowers, with illustrative poetry; to which are now added the calendar of flowers and the dial of flowers. (Lea & Blanchard, 1848), by Frederic Shoberl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The folk-lore of plants (Chatto & Windus, 1889), by T. F. Thiselton-Dyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Pflanzen im deutschen Volksleben. (E. Diederichs, 1925), by Heinrich Marzell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Pflanzen im Volksaberglauben. Ein Beitrag zur Pflege des Volkstums in Schule und Haus (G. Lang, 1896), by C. Rosenkranz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The vegetable lamb of Tartary; a curious fable of the cotton plant. To which is added a sketch of the history of cotton and the cotton trade. (S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887), by Henry Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Animal and plant lore; collected from the oral tradition of English speaking folk (Houghton, Mifflin and company; [etc., etc.], 1899), by Fanny D. Bergen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers and flower lore. (J. B. Alden, 1889), by Hilderic Friend (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flora of the sacred nativity. An attempt at collecting the legends and ancient dedications of plants connected in popular tradition with the life of our blessed Lord from his nativity to the flight into Egypt: preceded by an essay upon the flora sacra. (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1900), by Alfred E. P. Raymund Dowling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Norske platefargar (E. Gunleikson, 1923), by Johanne Nylænd and Rikard Berge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unsere Pflanzen nach ihren deutschen Volksnamen, ihrer Stellung in Mythologie und Volksglauben, in Sitte und Sage, in Geschichte und Literatur. Beiträge zur Belebung des botanischen Unterrichts und zur Pflege sinniger Freude in und an der Natur, für Schule und Haus (E.F. Thienemann, 1904), by Hermann Reling and J. Bohnhorst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zauberpflanzen und Amulette : ein Beitrag zur Culturgeschichte und Volksmedicin (Verlag von Moritz Perles, 1898), by E. M. Kronfeld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Flora mythologica oder Pfanzenkunde in Bezug auf Mythologie und Symbolik der Griechen und Römer. (J.D. Sauerländer, 1833), by Johann Heinrich Dierbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The language of flowers : with illustrative poetry; to which is now first added, the calendar of flowers ... (Lea & Blanchard, 1839), by Louise Cortambert and Frederic Shoberl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flora historica : or, The three seasons of the British parterre historically and botanically treated; with observations on planting, to secure a regular succession of flowers, from the commencement of spring to the end of autumn. To which are added, the most approved methods of cultivating bulbous and other plants, as practised by the most celebrated florists of England, Holland, and France. (Printed for E. Lloyd [by W. Clowes], 1824), by Henry Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flores poetici. The florist's manual : designed as an introduction to vegetable physiology and systematic botany for cultivators of flowers. With more than eighty beautifully-coloured engravings of poetic flowers (Munroe and Francis, 1833), by H. Bourne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unsere Pflanzen : ihre Namenserklärung und ihre Stellung in der Mythologie und im Volksaberglauben (B.G. Teubner, 1904), by Franz Söhns (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mother Earth's children; the frolics of the fruits and vegetables. (P.F. Volland & Co., 1914), by Elizabeth Gordon and M. T. Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les plantes originales. (Vuibert & Nony, 1904), by Henri Coupin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flower favourites; their legends, symbolism and significance. (Allen, 1898), by Lizzie Deas, George Allen (Firm), and C. Whittingham and Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• One hundred and one legends of flowers (The Christopher publishing house, 1927), by Elizabeth Todd Nash (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crack & crunch; nuts in fact and fancy (Coward-McCann, 1945), by Lee Maril (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unsere Pflanzen nach ihren deutschen Volksnamen : ihrer Stellung in Mythologie und Volksglauben, in Sitte und Sage, in Geschichte und Litteratur : Beiträge zur Belebung des botanischen Unterrichts und zur Pflege sinniger Freunde in und an der Natur, für Schule und Haus (E.F. Thienemann, 1898), by H. Reling and J. Bohnhorst (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deutsche Pflanzensagen (Fourier, 1987), by A. Perger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Flora's dictionary. (F. Lucas, 1830), by Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die deutschen Volksfeste, Volksbräuche und deutscher Volksglaube in Sagen, Märlein und Volksliedern : ein Beitrag zur vaterländischen Sittengeschichte (J. Bädeker, 1854), by V. J. von Zuccalmaglio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Pflanze im Zauberglauben und in der spagyrischen (okkulten) Heilkunst. (Siegismund, 1922), by Gustav Wilhelm Gussmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fleurs animées (R. Martin, 1849), by J. J. Grandville, Raban, Alphonse de Candolle, J. N. Gimbrede, Taxile Delord, Alphonse Karr, and N. Cleaveland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers and their kindred thoughts (Longman, 1848), by M. A. Bacon, Owen Jones, Henry Noel Humphreys, Edward La Trobe Bateman, England) Longmans & Company (London, and Edmonds & Remnants (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber die in sage und dichtung gangbare vorstellung von dem fortleben abgeschiedener menschlicher seelen in der pflanzewelt. (Gedruckt in der buchdruckerei von H. Sieling, 1849), by August Koberstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutsche Pflanzensagen. (A. Schaber, 1864), by Anton von Perger (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flower lore and legend (Gale Research Co., 1973), by Katharine M. Beals (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Vegetationsgott (J. C. Hinrichs, 1914), by Ernst Siecke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dictionary of English plant-names. (For the English dialect society, Trübner & co., 1886), by James Britten and Robert Holland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The folk-lore of plants : an address read before the Iowa Anthropological Society, November 26th, 1909 (T.J. Fitzpatrick, 1917), by Thomas H. Macbride (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers and flower lore with ... index and notes. (Sonnenschein, 1886), by Hilderic Friend (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ministry of flowers, being some thoughts respecting life, suggested by the book of nature. (Swan Sonnenschein, 1885), by Hilderic Friend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joachimi Camerarii Symbolorum et emblematum, centuriae quatuor ... (sumpt. L. Bovrgeat, typ. C. Kuchleri, 1668), by Joachim Camerarius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbolorvm et emblematvm ex re herbaria desvmtorvm centvria vna (impensis J. Hofmanni et H. Camoxij], 1590), by Joachim Camerarius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legends of flowers; or, "'Tis love that makes the world go round" (T. N. Foulis, 1908), by Paolo Mantegazza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joachimi Camerarii Symbolorvm et emblematvm centvriæ tres. I. Ex herbis & stirpibus. II. Ex animalibus quadrupedibus. III. Ex volatilibus & insectis. Accessit noviter centvria IV. Ex aquatilibus & reptilibus. Cvm figvris æneis. (Typis Voegelinianis, 1605), by Joachim Camerarius and Ludwig Camerarius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le langage des fleurs (Audot, 1834), by Louise Cortambert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers and flower lore. (S. Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, 1886), by Hilderic Friend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mitología vegetal; leyendas de las plantas. (Tip. de M. Ginés Hernández, 1892), by Ginés Alberola (page images at HathiTrust)
• De planten in het germaansche volksgeloof en volksgebruik. (Nijhoff, 1890), by Ludolf Anne Jan Wilt Sloet van de Beele (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Blumen in Sage und Geschichte. (T. C. F. Enslin (A. Enslin), 1875), by M. von Strantz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rostlinstvo a jeho význam v národních písních, povĕstech, băjĭch obr̆adech a povĕrách slovanskych : pr̆íspĕvek k slovanské symbolice (Nákl. Matice c̆eské, 1879), by Primus Sobotka (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pflanzen in sitte, sage und geschichte. Für schule und haus (B. G. Teubner, 1878), by Fr Warnke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The common English names of plants. (Printed at the "Chronicle" Office, 1873), by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches historiques sur les mots plantes males et plantes femelles (J.-B. Baillière, 1884), by Jean Baptiste Saint-Lager (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers and flower lore (W. S. Sonnenschein, 1884), by Hilderic Friend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Segulot ha-tsemaḥim ṿe-ototam : ba-hagadot uve-datot kol ha-ʻamim. (Ch. Margulies, 1898), by S. Rubin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Flower lore and legend (Holt, 1917), by Katharine M. Beals (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emblêmes de flore et des végétaux : text : dédiés aux littérateurs, comme recueil d'allégories sur les plantes et sur les arbres ; aux nobles, comme traité utile au blason ; aux peintres, comme manuel des attributs végétaux ; et aux dames comme langage des fleurs (L. Janet, 1819), by Alexis Lucot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of nature; or, The poetical language of flowers. (Ricker, Thorne & co., 1860), by Thomas Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers and flower lore. (Columbian Pub. Co., 1891), by Hilderic Friend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der birkenbesen : ein symbol des donar : Eine mythologische untersuchung. (Leiden, 1900), by Friedrich Kunze (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Unsere Pflanzen : ihre Namenserklärung und ihre Stellung in der Mythologie und im Volksaberglauben (B.G. Teubner, 1899), by Franz Söhns (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The moral of flowers (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, and J. Hatchard ;, 1833), by Rebecca Hey, Martin Robinson, John Hatchard, William Clark, and Rees Longman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flowers and flower lore. (Nims & Knight, 1889), by Hilderic Friend (page images at HathiTrust)
• The flowers and their story (Epworth Press, 1907), by Hilderic Friend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plant lore, legends, and lyrics. Embracing the myths, traditions, superstitions, and folk-lore of the plant kingdom. (Sampson, Low, Marston, 1892), by Richard Folkard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The language of flowers; or flora symbolica. Including floral poetry, original and selected. With original illustrations, printed in colours by Terry. (Frederick Warne and co., 1887), by John Henry Ingram (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's songs and stories of the wild flowers, a book by second grade children. (H. Wagner Publishing Company, 1922), by Norine Connelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The language of flowers with illustrative poetry : to which are now first added the calendar of flowers, and the dial of flowers. (Saunders and Otley, 1835), by Louise Cortambert and Frederic Shoberl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Växterna i de gamlas föreställningar, seder och bruk (P. Palmquists aktiebolag, 1911), by Henriksson. J. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Herbal pearls : traditional Chinese folk wisdom (Eureka Springs, Ark. : Ozark Beneficial Plant Project in asociation with Boian Books, 2008., 2008), by Wenwei Miao, Steven Foster, China Society for the Study of Folk Literature and Art, and Ozark Beneficial Plant Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• In gardens of Hawaii, by Marie C. Neal. (The Museum, 1948), by Marie C. Neal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Legends of incense, herb & oil magic (Dorene Pub. Co., 1938), by Lewis De Claremont, Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection, and Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bergische Pflanzennamen (Martini & Gruttefien, 1912), by Julius Leithaeuser (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Het plantenrijk, zijne legenden, poëzie & symboliek in de algemeene mythologie en in het christendom. (Janssens, 1885), by A. M. Oomen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beiträge zum Thier- und Pflanzenbuch. Thiergespräche, räthsel, Legenden und Redensarten, aus dem Volksmunde gesammelt und der 11. Versammlung des Vereins für Niederdeutsche Sprachforschung gewidmet (W. Werther, 1885), by Richard Wossidlo and Verein für Niederdeutsche Sprachforschung (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbolorum et emblematum centuriae tres : I. Ex herbis & stirpibus. II. Ex animalibus quadrupedibus. III. Ex volatilibus & insectis. (Typis Voegelinanis, 1605), by Joachim Camerarius, Johann Siebmacher, and Ludwig Camerarius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical language of flowers : or, The pilgrimage of love (J.C. Riker, 1848), by Thomas Miller and Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The moral of flowers : or, thoughts gathered from the field and the garden (Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1849), by Mrs Hey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Language of flowers : with illustrative poetry, to which is now first added The calendar of flowers ; revised by the editor of 'Forget me not.' (Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1836), by Frederic Shoberl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical language of flowers : or, The pilgrimage of love (D. Bogue, 1855), by Thomas Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetical language of flowers : or, The pilgrimage of love (Griffin, Gohnn, and co., 1862), by Thomas Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The language of flowers, with illustrative poetry; to which are now added the calendar of flowers and the dial of flowers. (Saunders & Otley, 1840), by Frederic Shoberl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book of Herbs, by Rosalind Northcote, ed. by Harry Roberts (Gutenberg ebook)
• The flowers and gardens of Japan, by Florence Du Cane, illust. by Ella Du Cane (Gutenberg ebook)
• Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics: Embracing the Myths, Traditions, Superstitions, and Folk-Lore of the Plant Kingdom, by Richard Folkard (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Curious Fable of the Cotton Plant.: To Which Is Added a Sketch of the History of Cotton and the Cotton Trade, by Henry Lee (Gutenberg ebook)
• Storyology: Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore, by Benjamin Taylor (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lendas dos Vegetaes (in Portuguese), by Eduardo Henrique Vieira Coelho de Sequeira (Gutenberg ebook)

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