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transfer of names between two very different plants, and those even'so 
tiniversall ally known and diffused as thé Daisy and the Primrosé; à 
transfer, perhaps, still mre strikingly exemplified in the case of the 
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iei ‘blue flower, a Myosotis, but which for more than 200 years had in 
aii country, France, and the Netherlands, been given to a very different; plant, 
the: Ajuga Chamrepitys, on account, as was said, of the nauseous 
o that it leaves in the mouth... It is to this plant exclusively that we find 
ned by Lyte, Lobel, Gerarde, Parkinson, and all our h erbalists from. the 
tidn the plant, inclusive of Gray in his * Natural Arrangement’ published in 
1821, until it was trans transferred with the pretty story of a drowning lover, to that 
which. now. bears it. This had always been called in England Mouse-ear Scor- 
pion-grass. In Germany Fuchs, in his Hist, Plant., Basil, 1542, gives the name 
Fergiss em mein to the Teucrium Botrys, L., under the Lat. synonym of Cha- 
mædrys yera femina. His excellent plate at p. 870 leaves no doubt as to the 
species he meant. In Denma tka e, Forglemn mig icke, was 
given to the Veronica Chamedrys. At the same Sa it would seem that in 
some. iT of Germany the Myosotis palustris was known as the Echium 
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topodium, Ix; while the «Ortus Sanitatis, Ed. 1536, ch. 199 and, Macer 
‘de virtutibus herbarum, Ed. 1559, like the Danish herbalists, give it fo the 
Veronica Chamedrys, L. _ This latter seems to be the plant to which the name 
rightfully belongs, and to which it was given in reference to the blossoms fall- 
ing off and flying away. See SPEEDWELL. From this plant it will have been 
transferred to the ground-pine through a confusion in respect: to whieh species 
should properly be called Chamedrys ; and as: both these very different. plants 
were taken for the Chamedrys of P the pepnue pem of the one nm to 
quality. -Itattaches itself to a river-side plant, and :the: story: books are sendy 
with a legend. We learn from Mills's * History of Chivalry’ that a flower that 
woven into collars, ànd'worn by knights, and that one-of these was the subject 
of famous joust fought in 1465 between the two most accomplished knights 
of and France; "What that would» be 
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only possible to : ‘diseoyer by inspection of ‘one of these -collars; but there às 
