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certainly no ground for g tliat it was the same as our present * Forget 
me not, The story of this latter, in connection with the two lovers, will be 
found in Mills's work, vol. i. p. 314. .. Myosotis palustris, L.” — 
The Primrose afforded us an example ofthe corruption of a name 
clearly proved by historical evidence; in the word Cowslip the corrup- 
tion is more of an inferential character, but there is here also strong 
presumption that, the literal, etymology could not. be the correct. one. 
'To solve the diffieulty; our author proposes first an etymological. correé- 
tion, and then a bold metonymical change, in neither of which are we 
disposed to concur, although we cannot but admire both the plausi- - 
bility..of the conjecture and the ingenuity with which it. is, sup- 
ported :— EY tear TSE] 
“€ COWSLIP, -LAP, or -LoP, of different dialects, Anglo-Saxon euslippe, and in 
Alies Glossary cusloppe, a name of very uncertain derivation, possibly a 
from having been used in the pneumonia of cattle, an application of it sug- 
gested by the resemblance of its thick woolly leaves to the dewlap ofa bullock. 
The last syllable of Cowstip, -lap, or -lop will, in this view of it, be the Anglo- 
Saxon /eppa, or lappa, a lap or border, and the name, meaning Cow’s dewlap, 
have originally belonged to the Mullein, but by some blunder have been 
transferred to a different Verbascum, our present Cowslip. iiri 
gis Primula veris, L. 
Eh PPS EI : P L will serve t yy DERN SAIN Cag Pb V id g taken 
by tlie author, in illustration of names of a simpler and more elemen- 
tary character, and therefore admitting of being traced through various 
kindred languages and up to their original root :— 
Oak, Anglo-Saxon ac, ec; Scot. aik, Old Norse ei£, : 
Low Germ. eek and eik, Germ. eiche; Old High Germ. eth, the A having a 
the oak took its name, and etymologically 
twoobjects, the oak and the egg, ae 
in their “respective languages; or, interchanging the; signification, to ^a 
name: for wes one, tht ines oak in- another. The obrious eor ty vd 
shape sufficiently explains it. See Exz. ‘The oak, like other trees, takes. 
hame from its most useful t. 
Selby, p. 227, *and even for some t M i 
chiefly valued for the fattening of swine. “Laws relating to pannage, or ie fate 
tening of logs in the forest, were enacted during the heptarchy ; and by Ins's 
