70 POPULAR NAMES 



bane, mixed up with pig's gall and vinegar. Once a general 

 term, it has been appropriated to the deadly nightshade. 



Atropa Belladonna, L. 



DYER'S GREEN-WEED, in the sense of a dye-herb that 

 tinges green, Genista tinctoria, L. 



DYER'S ROCKET OR YELLOW WEED, from its leaves re- 

 sembling those of the genuine rocket, and its being used 

 by the dyers to dye woollen stuffs yellow, 



Reseda Luteola, L. 

 EARTH-BALLS, truffles, balls that grow under the earth, 



Tuber cibarium, Sib. 



EARTH-GALL, A.S. eor>6-gealle, from their bitterness, 

 plants of the gentian tribe, more particularly the lesser 

 centaury, Erythrsea Centauriurn, L. 



EARTH-MOSS, Phascum, L. 



EARTH-NUT, or -CHESTNUT, ERNUT, or YERNUT, from its 

 nutty esculent tubers, Bunium flexuosum, With. 



EARTH-SMOKE, L.fumus terra, see FUMITORY, 



Fumaria officinalis, L. 



EARTH-STAR, a fungus so called from its stellate shape 

 when burst and lying on the ground, Geaster, Berk. 

 EGG-PLANT, from the shape of its fruit, 



Solanum Melongena, L, 



EGLANTINE, a name that has been the subject of much 

 discussion, both as to its exact meaning, and as to the 

 shrub to which it properly belongs. In Chaucer and our 

 other old poets it is spelt Eglantere and Eglatere, as in a 

 passage in the Flower and Leaf, st. 3 : 



The hegge also, that yede in compas, 

 And closed in all the greene herbere, 

 "With sicamour was set and Eglatere. 



But whether this word meant originally the sweetbrier, the 

 yellow rose called in systematic works Eglanteria, the dog- 

 rose, the burnet rose, or some other species, cannot now be 

 ascertained, and perhaps the poets who used it meant no 



