72 POPULAR NAMES 



of them. It plays through all the vowels, Ic. Almr, Da. 

 Aim, jfllm, and Elm, A.S. and Engl. Mm, Germ, in dif- 

 ferent dialects lime, Olm, and Ulme, Du. Olm, but stands 

 isolated, as a foreign word, which they have adopted. This 

 is the Lat. Ulmus, the terminating syllable of which, mus, 

 indicates an instrument, a material, or means, with which 

 something is done ; while the first seems to be the ul of 

 ulcus, sore, and ukisci, punish, in allusion to the common 

 use of rods of elm for whipping slaves. See Plautus (Asin. 

 2, 2, 96). The foreign origin of the name indicates that 

 the tree was introduced into England from the South of 

 Europe, and explains what Aubrey remarks in his " Wilts," 

 that in the Villare Anglicum, although there are a great 

 many towns named after other trees, there are only three 

 or four Elme-tons. Ulmus, L. 



EMONY, the anemony misunderstood as An Emony. 

 " Gardeners commonly call them Emonies." R. Turner. 

 Bot. p. 18. Anemone, L. 



ENCHANTER'S NIGHTSHADE, a name that, by some, 

 blunder, has been transferred from the mandrake, Atropa 

 Mandragora, to an insignificant garden weed. The man- 

 drake was called Nightshade from having been classed with 

 the Solaria, and Enchanters from its Latin name Circcea, 

 Gr. Kipxaiu, given to it after the goddess Circe, who be- 

 witched the companions of Ulysses with it (Od. b. x.) ; or 

 according to Dioscorides, as quoted by Westmacott, p. 105 : 

 " 'Twas called Circsea, because Circe, an Enchantress ex- 

 pert in herbs, used it as a Tempting-powder in amorous 

 concerns." C. lutetiana, L. 



ENDIVE, It. and Sp. endivia, L. intybea, adj. of intybus, 

 Cichorium Endivia, L. 



ENGLISH MERCURY, a plant reckoned among the Mer- 

 curies, but why called English more particularly, we are 

 not told, Chenopodium Bonus Henricus, L. 



ERS, the bitter vetch, Fr. ers, L. ervum, E. Ervilia, L. 



