NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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AVhen Anptlo-Saxon words are 

 transferred into modem English the 

 labials B and P are often inter- 

 changed. The word " Pagle" or 

 " Peagle," applied to the Cowslip, 

 is compounded of two Anglo-Saxon 

 words — " Beag," " Beah," " Beh," 

 or " Beeh," a garland or crown, and 

 " Gylden," " Gelden," " Gealde," 

 or " Gelde," golden or yellow ; thus 

 " Beah-Gelde," Golden-Garland. 



Michael Drayton, in describing 

 the wedding garlands of his day, 



To sort these flowers of show with others 



that were sweet. 

 The Cowslip thea they couch, or Oxlip 



for her meet. 



It is just possible that the term 

 " John Georges," as applied to the 

 Marsh Marigold, may be a corrup- 

 tion of the Anglo-Saxon words 

 " Geond," over or through, and 



" Geres," a fen or marsh, in allu- 

 sion to its habital. 



No doubt the Common Teazel 

 was called " Church-brooms" from 

 its resemblance to the long-handled 

 " Turk's-head " brooms with which 

 they sweep the cobwebs from 

 church ceilings, &c. 



The modem word " Charlock" or 

 " Carlock," is derived from the 

 Anglo-Saxon " Cawel," " Cawl," or 

 " Cael, " cale or cabbage, and 

 " Leac," a herb, thus we have 

 "Gear-leac," Spear-leak, or Gar- 

 lic, " Cerse-leac," " Cress-leak," or 

 Nasturtion. Many herbs whose 

 seed vessels or flowers bore a 

 fancied resemblance to a purse 

 were called in Anglo-Saxon " Codd- 

 leac," from "Ceod" or " Codd," a 

 purse or small bag, and "Leac," 

 whence the English word " Kadle- 

 dock" or " Kadlock" is no doubt 

 derived.^C. E. Fitz Gebald. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



The two Clouded Yellows, Colias 

 Edusa and C. Hyale, have been 

 tolerably plentiful along the Lower 

 Sandgate Road this season. — Q. 



A SLOW-WORM of unusual length 

 was brought to us from the War- 

 ren, a short time ago. The body 

 measured eight and a half-inches, 

 and the tail eleven, making a total 

 of nineteen inches and a half. We 

 were also told that one was taken 

 out of the stomach of a viper that 

 had been killed ; this is not a usual 

 meal for him, we believe. 



White Varieties of Plants. — 

 I have obtained white varieties of 

 the following plants from the 

 Warren, viz. — Geranium prateiisi', 

 Echium Vulgare, Ophrys Apifcra, 

 and Campanula Trachelium. — C. 

 H. Dashwood. 



Anaoallis Tenella. — Last sum- 

 mer I found one plant of this pretty 

 and somewhat rare Pimpernel, 

 growing in a damp piece of ground 

 on the WaiTen. I have not met 

 with any other specimens.— C. H. 

 Dashwood. 



