30 POPULAR NAMES 



called so from the brown colour of its stems and flowers, 

 but more probably from its growing so abundantly about 

 the brunnen or public fountains of German towns and 

 villages, Scrophularia aquatica and nodosa, L. 



also, from its being supposed to cure the disease called in 

 German die braune, a kind of quinsey, the Brunella, or, as 

 it is now spelt, with a P, Prunella vulgaris, L. 



BRUISEWORT, from its supposed efficacy in bruises, the 

 daisy, Bellis perennis, L. 



and also the soapwort, Saponaria officinalis, L. 



BRYONY, L. bryonia, Gr. ftpvwvia. 

 BLACK-, from its dark glossy leaves and black root, 



Tarnus communis, L. 



WHITE-, from the paler colour of the leaves and 

 of the root, Bryonia dioica, L. 



BDCKBEAN, believed by some botanists to have been 

 originally bog-bean, which, from its French synonym, 

 trtfle des marais, is very plausible, but that in Dutch also 

 it is called bocks-boonen, and in German bocksbohne, and 

 considered a remedy against the scharbock, or scurvy, 

 whence it is called scharbock' s klee. Buckes-beane, and not 

 bog-bean, is the name of it in all the old herbals, and this 

 must be admitted to be the proper and established one, 

 being, no doubt, derived from the Dutch word, one which 

 seems to be a corruption of L. scorbutus, the scurvy. 



Menyanthes trifoliata, L. 



FRINGED-, so called from its delicately fringed 

 corolla, and its alliance with the genuine buckbean, 



Limnanthemum nymphseoides, Lk. 



BUCK'S-BEARD, from its long coarse pappus, resembling 

 the beard of a he-goat, Tragopogon pratensis, L. 



BUCK'S-HORNE, from its furcated leaves, 



Plantago Coronopus, L. 



BUCK-MAST, the nuts or mast of the beech, which was 

 formerly called bucke, Fagus sylvatica, L. 



