22 POPULAR NAMES 



BIRD-CHERRY, a cherry only fit for birds, 



Primus padus, L. 



BIRD'S-EYES, from its bright blue flowers, 



Veronica Chamaedrys, L. 



and also, locally, Primula farinosa, L. 



RED-, Geranium Robertianum, L. 



BIRD'S-FOOT, from its incurved claw-like legumes, 



Ornithopus perpusillus, L. 



BIRD'S-FOOT TREFOIL, from its legumes spreading like a 

 crow's foot, Lotus corniculatus, L. 



BIRD'S-NEST, from its leafless stalks resembling a nest of 

 sticks, such as crows make, Monotropa Hypopitys, L. 

 also, from its matted roots, Neottia Nidus avis, L. 



BIRD-SEED, canary grass used to feed birds, 



Phalaris canariensis, L. 



BIRD'S-TONGUE, L. lingua passerina, from the shape of 

 the leaf, Polygonum aviculare, L. 



BIRTHWORT, from its supposed remedial powers in par- 

 turition, suggested, on the doctrine of signatures, by the 

 shape of the corolla, whence also its Greek name from 

 dpto-To?, best, and Xo^eta, delivery, 



Aristolochia Clematitis, L. 



BISHOP'S-LEAVES, from being known in French as I'kerbe 

 du siege, in reference to its remedial powers in hemorrhoidal 

 affections, and this word siege being understood as of a 

 bishop's see, Scrophularia aquatica, L. 



BISHOP'S-WEED, possibly from Fr. levesque, the name of 

 another umbelliferous plant, transferred to this, and mis- 

 taken as meaning bishop, Ammi majus, L. 



BISHOP'S-WORT, a name applied, for reasons unknown, 

 to the Devil-in-a-bush, Nigella damascena, L. 



BISTORT, from its writhed roots, L. bis, twice, torta, 

 twisted, and thence called by Turner Twice-written, 



Polygonum Bistorta, L. 



BITTER CRESS, Cardamine amara, L. 



