Lewis Carroll's Florilidum

Many of Lewis's flowers have a purpose that is medicinal. To use a botanical term, they are physics. Oxford has had a botanic physics garden for some 400 years and it is situated right beside Lewis's home college. In his fictional works there are lethally poisonous plants, such as the purple wolf's brain,. There are poisonous plants present among the horrific creatures at the stone table. But there are triumphant life-giving blooms too. The potent fire-flowers in healing ointment given as a gift to Lucy. And there is the curative juice of the marshmallow gold strongly associated with Mary. So flowers can be placed markers, pictures of beauty and physics. Last