64 POPULAR NAMES 



A.S. version of Matth. ch. xiii. v. 25, renders the Lat. 

 " zizania" coccel, Wycliffe's both cokel and darnel, and later 

 versions tares, arid Th. Newton, in his Herbal to the Bible, 

 p. 226, tells us expressly that, " under the name of Cockle 

 and Darnel is comprehended all vicious, noisome, and un- 

 profitable graine, encombring and hindering good corne." 

 The explanation given above is the most plausible that 

 offers itself, but the origin of this word is extremely 

 obscure, and all analysis of it quite conjectural. Some 

 incidental notice may another day throw a light upon it, 

 that cannot be elicited by any amount of thought, or inge- 

 nuity of conjecture. Lolium temulentum, L. 



DAUKE, the wild carrot, L. daucus, Gr. Sav/cos, a word 

 that seems to be etymologically identical with the northern 

 laukr, leac, lauch, by a replacing of d with /, 



D. Carota, L. 



DEADMAN'S FINGERS, from the pale colour and hand-like 

 shape of the palmate tubers, Orchis maculata, L. 



DEAD NETTLE, Lat. of Ort. San. Urtica mortua, a plant 

 that has nettle-like leaves, but does not resent the touch 

 with a sting, and from its apparent insensibility is called 

 dead, deaf, and blind, Lamium, L. 



WHITE-, L. album, L. 



,, ,, RED-, L. purpureum, L. 



YELLOW-, L. Galeobdolon, Or. 



DEAD-TONGUE, from its paralysing effects on the organs 

 of voice, of which Threlkeld gives a striking example, on 

 the authority of a Mr. Vaughan, in the case of eight lads 

 who had eaten it, and of whom " five died before morning, 

 not one of them having spoken a word," 



(Enanthe crocata, L. 



DEADLY NIGHTSHADE, or DEATH'S HERB, 



Atropa Belladonna, L. 



DEAF NETTLE, the Dead nettle, Lamium, L. 



