128 NAMES OF PLANTS. 



Euphrosyne. Other names whicli were, and some of 

 them still are, used for this plant, refer to this 

 remedial property as Ophthalmica and Ocularia; in 

 French, Euphraise ; in German, Augentrost ; and in 

 English, Eyebright. 



Fa'gus, Pliny. L. for the Beech-tree, from G. 'phegos ; 

 though the G. ijliegos was not the Beech, but a kind 

 of Oak ; so there has been some confusion. " But 

 here I may not omit a note of the accurate critic 

 Palmerius, upon a passage in Theophrastus, where 

 he animadverts upon his interpreter, and shows that 

 the ancient loliegos was by no means the Beech, but 

 a kind of Oak."— Evelyn's ' Silva.' White, in his 

 'Latin Dictionary,' gives Fagus (a Beech-tree) as 

 equivalent to G. phegos ; but Liddell and Scott 

 (Greek Dictionary) give us — Phegos, " a kind of Oak 

 bearing an esculent acorn, not the Latin Fagus 

 (Beech)." The name is evidently the same, but 

 some confusion has arisen in its application. 



Fe'dia, Adanson (see Cicendia). A name without any 

 known or probable meaning. 

 Auricula. L., an ear. 



Festu'ca, DodonsEus. L., " from fest, Celtic, food or pas- 

 turage." — Hooker and Arnott. L. festuca means a 

 stalk, stem, or straw. 



Fila'go, Dodonseus. lj.,fil, thread ; the plant being covered 

 with thread-like hairs. 



FcENic'uLUM, Pliny. Fa^n, hay; the smell of the plant 

 being likened to that of hay. 



Fraga'ria, Pliny. L. for the Strawberry. " Fraga (akin to 

 Sanscrit root ghra, odorari), the fragrant things; 

 hence Strawberries." — White's Lat. Diet. 1869. 



Franken'ia, Linneus. Named from John Franken, a 



