2 POPULAR NAMES 



Pliny suggests that it is so called from growing where 

 there is no dust, a, not, and KOVK, dust, " nullo juxta ne 

 pulvere quidem nutriente." It is, rather, a word of the 

 same derivation, but used in a different sense, a/covirov, 

 without a struggle, alluding to the deadly virulence of 

 its juice, which W. Turner says "is of all poysones the 

 most hastie poysone." The plant of the Greek writers has 

 been identified with the monkshood, 



Aconitum Napellus, L. 



WINTER-, Eranthis hyemalis, D.C. 



ADDER'S TONGUE, from the Du. adderstong, in old MSS. 

 called nedderis gres (grass) and nedderis-tonge, M. Lat. 

 serpentaria, from its spike of capsules having some fancied 

 resemblance to that reptile's tongue, 



Ophioglossum vulgatum, L. 



ADDERWORT, the snakeweed or bistort, from its writhed 

 roots, Polygonum Bistorta, L. 



AFFADYL, M.Lat. a/odillus, from L. asphodelus, Gr. 

 acr<oSeXo9, pictured in Ort. Sanit. as an Iris, an old term 

 replaced in later times by Daffodil, 



Narcissus Psendonarcissus, L. 

 AGARICK, L. agaricum, G. asyapi/cdv. 

 AGRIMONY or EGREMONY, in Chaucer egremoine, L. agri- 

 monia, a word of uncertain origin, probably the Gr. 

 apjefjLwvr) ; but what this plant was, or why it was called so, 

 is unknown. A. Eupatorium, L. 



,, HEMP-, from its being confused under the name of 

 Eupatoria with the preceding species, and the resemblance 

 of its leaves to thosa of hemp, Eupatoria cannabina, L. 



ALBESPYNE, in old works the name of the white- or 

 haw-thorn, from the whiteness of its rind as contrasted 

 with that of the black-thorn, Fr. aubespine, M.Lat. albe- 

 pinus, from L. alba, white, and spina, thorn, 



Cratsegus Oxyacantha, L. 

 ALDER, formerly, and still locally, and more properly, 



