64 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [January. 



A note by the editor (Albert Way) is as follows : — 



" The plant here intended is perhaps the Corn Marigold, Chrysanthemum 

 segetum, Linn., called in the north Groulans, Gnilde, or Goles, and in the 

 south, Golds. See Kay and Jamieson. Dr. Turner says that ' Ranunculus 

 is called in English Crowfoot, or Kingerix, or in some places a Gollande ' 

 (Herball, Part 2). Nares states that Gold is the Cudweed, or Mothwort, 

 Gjiaphalium germanlcum, Linn." 



Would our kind friend the Editor inform us whether the plant calletl 

 Goolde in the ' Promptorium ' aforesaid is not intended for the Marigold, 

 the Chrysanthemum Coronarium, which is truly "a sun-loving fiower -^ also 

 whether he ever heard the Cudweed called ' Gold' ? 



Eobert Turner, in his 'British Plants,' says one of the names of Cudweed 

 is Albinum, from its whiteness, and it is called Herha imjtia by Pliny. 



Names of Plants. 

 It was not poverty of imagination, but the reverse, that was exemplified 

 in the blending together the representative signs of the Pauna and Flora 

 of any country and by any people. It was an exuberant imagination and 

 a poverty of invention that produced this result. The few radical words 

 expressive of the zoology, have to perform the same office for the botany 

 of a nation ; or in other words, to do double duty — to serve as represen- 

 tatives both of the animal and vegetable kingdom. Philologtjs. 



Can you tell me what is generally supposed to be the Mustard-plant of 

 the New Testament ? 



Again, — Are there many examples of wild plants producing double 

 flowers? Cardamlne pratensis does occasionally (frequently?). It ap- 

 pears to be plentiful in a meadow a mile south of Martinsell, Pewsey, 

 Wilts. F.T.K 



Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus, Mercury, Goose-foot, or Good 



King Henry. 



A correspondent wishes to know when and from cause this plant ob- 

 tained the name of Good King Henry ? and whether it was not called 

 Blite, or Blitum hortense, and Blitum Bonus-Henricus ? 



Weldillone. 



In a copy of the ' Practica' of John Arderne (Sloane MS. 56, p. 3) are 

 some names of plants in French and English, among which occurs " Weldil- 

 lone, i.e. Edgrove." What plant is this, and what other name has it ? 



S. B. 



Communications have been received from 



George Jordan ; A. G. More ; Sidney Beisly ; John Sim ; Rev. T. P. 

 Eavenshaw ; E. Edward* ; H. Trimen; C. C. Babington ; W. P. ; S. B.; 

 Al. Kay ; Arch. Jerdan. 



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