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ALLER. The Alder tree, Alnus rotundifolia, is 
nearly always so called in West Somerset. Dr. 
Prior says this local form is the original and more 
proper form of the name, which comes from the 
Anglo-Saxon; the ‘‘d” has been inserted for 
euphony. 
ALL-Goop. Mercury Goosefoot, Chenopodium 
Bonus-Henricus. An old name given to the 
** Good King Henry ”’ Goosefoot (sometimes called 
‘* English Mereury’’) on account of its excellent 
qualitiesasaremedy and anescualent. Its Dutch, 
German, and French names have the same 
meaning See Goop KING HENRY. : 
AuL-HEAL. (1) Great Wild (or Cat’s) Valerian, 
Valeriana officinalis. It owes its popular name 
to the fact that until comparatively recent years 
country people commonly used the leaves as an 
application to wounds. 
(2) Perhaps the name ALL-HEAL or CLOWN’s 
ALL-HEAL is more generally given to the Marsh 
Woundwort, Stachys palustris, whick Gerarde 
praised as healing “* grievous and mortal wounds.”’ 
He says be derived his knowledge of its powers 
from a clown, who cured a wound with it in a 
week, which wold have sequired forty days with 
balsam itself ; hence he called the plant ‘‘ Clown’s 
All-heal ”’ or ‘*‘ Clown’s Woundwort.”’ 
(3) An old name for the Mistletoe, Viseum 
album. Dr. Downes informs me that in the 
neighbourhood of Ilminster the Mistletoe is some- 
times called ‘‘ Churchman’s Greeting,” and he 
raises the question whether the old name for the 
Mistletoe was not therefcre ALL HAI rather than 
ALL HBAL. ; é ; 
(4) The name is sometimes given to the 
Common S2f-heal, Prunella vulgaris, which is 
still known also by some cf its old names of 
Carpenter’s Herb, Sicklewort, Hookweed, &c., 
which allude to its uses as a vulnerary; and 
many cases are recorded by cld herbalists in 
which wounds inflicted by sickles, seythes, and 
other sharp instruments were healed by its use. 
(5) A correspondent at Stoke-under-Ham 
gives me this as a local name for the Dead Nettle, 
Lamium. 
ALL Rot. Mr. H. A. Bending, of Shoscombe 
(near Bath) informs me that this is one of the 
names given in that distict to the Cow Parsnip, 
Heracleum Sphondylium, in other parts of 
Somerset called Eltrot (of which the above name 
is a corruption) or Limperscrimp. 
ALL SEED. A name given to a yariety of small 
weeds bearing a large number of seeds. Probably 
most commonly given to 
(1) The Four leaved All-seed, Polycarpon 
tetraphyllum, of which the scientific name comes 
—_ the Greek and means “‘ Four-leaved many- 
ruit.”’ 
