14 POPULAR NAMES 



an herbe called valde bona, and beareth small sprigges as 

 spiknarde. It groweth on hye hylles." 



Meum athamanticum, L. 

 in some authors, incorrectly, Gentiana lutea, L. 



BALLOCK-GKASS, A. S. bealloc-wyrt, from its tubers 

 resembling small balls, whence its Greek name, 0/3^49, 



Orchis, L. 



BALM, BAULM, or BAWM, contracted from Balsam, 

 L. balsamum, by some said to be derived from Hebr. bol 

 smin, chief of oils, by W. Smith from Hebr. bdsdm, balm, 

 and besem, a sweet smell, terms originally applied to a 

 plant very different from that which now bears the name, 



Melissa officinalis, L. 



BASTARD-, Melittis Melissophyllum, L. 



BALSAM, or BALSAMINE, see above, 



Impatiens Noli me tangere, L. 



BANEBERRY, A.S. bana, murderous, from its poisonous 

 quality. Hill says in his Herbal (p. 320), that children 

 who have eaten the fruit have died in convulsions. 



Acta3a spicata, L. 



BANEWORT, from its being supposed, like several other 

 marsh plants, to bane sheep, and Salmon tells us that it 

 does so by ulcerating their entrails. 



Ranunculus Flammula, L. 



BAN EGRESS, from its growing in hedge banks, the hedge 

 mustard, Sisymbrium officinale, L. 



BARBARA, ST. her cress, see under ST. B. 

 BARBERRY or BERBERRY, M.Lat. berberis, Ar. barbaris, 



B. vulgaris, L. 



BARLEY, called in Sloane MS. No. 1571, 3, at fol. 113, 

 barlych, and in the A.S. Chronicle, A.D. 1124, bcerlic, from 

 beer, which represents both the A.S. bere, barley-corn and 

 beor, the liquor brewed from it, and lie for leac, plant, a 

 name identical in meaning with the bcer-crces of JSlfric's 

 vocabulary. Verstegan says that the name of barley was 



