134 NAMES OF PLANTS. 



reason than this that they have received their name. 

 Hardoin, however, thinks that the names liip])0][»liaes 

 and hippophceston have another origin, and that they 

 are compounds of phaos, lustre, from the hrilliancy 

 which they were said to impart to cloths, and hippos, 

 in an augmentative sense, meaning * great lustre.' " — 

 Note in Bohn's Ed. of Pliny's Nat. Hist. The meaning 

 must be considered doubtful. 



Hippu'eis, Linneus. G., liipp, horse, and our, tail. A name 

 given by Dodonseus to Equisetum. 



Hol'cus, Linneus. G., holcos, from helco, I extract; because 

 it was supposed to have the property of drawing out 

 thorns from the flesh. 



Holos'teum, Dioseorides. From G., hoi, all, and osteon, 

 bone ; "by antiphrasis, the texture being the verj'' 

 reverse, soft and delicate." — Theis. 



Honcken'ya. Named after G. A. Honckeny, a German 

 botanist, who died in 1805. 



Hor'deum, Virgil. L. for barley. Its origin is dubious. 



Hotto'nia, Boerhaave. Named after Pierre Hotton, a pro- 

 fessor at Leyden, who died there in 1709. 



Hu'mulus, Linneus. From L., humus, soil, the ground; 

 figuratively low, or mean. It has been suggested 

 that without support the plant would grow on the 

 ground. 

 Lu'pulus, Brunfels. From L., lupus, a wolf. Pliny calls 

 the plant " Lupus salictarius," meaning literally the 

 *' willow wolf." It probably took this name from the 

 tenacity with which it clung to willows. Lupulus 

 was an officinal name for the Hop. 



Hutchin'sia. Named in honour of Miss Hutchins, of 

 Bantry, Ireland, who was an excellent and well- 

 known botanist. 



Hyacin'thus. See Agraphis. 



