136 NAMES OF PLANTS. 



Impa'tiexs, Dodon£eus. Impatient, from the sudden open- 

 ing of the capsule if touched when it is ripe. 

 No^li-me -tang ere, Columna. L., touch me not; for the 

 same reason as the last. Gerard gives this name 

 to the Squirting Cucumber {Echalium officinarum), 

 which has a very remarkable provision for the dis- 

 tribution of its seeds, for when quite ripe the 

 fruit parts from its stem, and the contents are 

 discharged wdth such force as to convey them a 

 considerable distance. 



In'ula, Horace. L., for Elecampane, said to be from G., 

 Helen; the plant being supposed to have sprung 

 from the tears of the heroine of the Trojan war. 

 Cony'za, Hippocrates. G. name for the plant. 

 Hele' niiun, Dioscovides. See Inula; the derivation is the 

 same. 



I'ris, Theophrastus. G. for the rainbow ; from the varied 

 colour of the flowers. 

 Pseud- ac'orus, Linneus. G., })seud, false, and Acorus, 

 which see. It is an older name than Linneus ; thus 

 Matthiolus caUs it Pseudo-acorum, w^hich is practi- 

 cally the same name, though not identically. 



Isa'tis, Dioscorides. G. name of the plant. 



Isnar'dia, Linneus. Named after Antoine d'Isnard, a bota- 

 nist, and professor at Paris, who died in 1743. 



Isoe'tes, Linneus. G., iso, equal, or alike, and etos, the 

 year ; meaning evergreen. 



Isol'epis, K. Brown. G., iso, equal, and lejyis, a scale ; on 

 account of the uniform size of the glumes. 

 Holoschoe'nus, Dalechamps. Greek for a kind of rush. 



Jas'ione, Jasi'one, Jasio'ne. The last accentuation is given 

 by Withering, but may be considered quite out of 

 date. Name of Theophrastus; G., generally supposed 



