74 POPULAR NAMES 



maximam inde claritudinem accipere." Apuleius, c. xxx. 

 The plant was long in vogue as a remedy in diseases of the 

 eye. Brunschwygk tells us in his quaint old German : 

 " Es was ouch ein kiingin in Engelant, die brant allein das 

 wasser uss der blumlin, und thett wunderliche ding darmit 

 zu der ougen, als mir der selbigen kiingin artzet geseyt 

 hat." Euphrasia officinalis, L. 



EYEBRIGHT COW-WHEAT, a plant in some respects re- 

 sembling both the eyebright and the cow-wheat, 



Bartsia Odontites, Hud. 



FAIR MAIDS OF FEBRUARY, snowdrops, from their white 

 blossoms opening about the 2nd of that month, when 

 maidens dressed in white walked in procession at the feast 

 of the Purification, Galanthus nivalis, L. 



FAIR MAIDS OF FRANCE, a double-flowered variety of 

 crowfoot introduced from France, 



Ranunculus aconitifolius, L. 



FAIRY BUTTER, a fungus so called in the northern 

 counties from its being supposed to be made in the night, 

 and scattered about by the Fairies. Atkinson Clev. Dial, 

 p. 169. Tremella arborea and albida, Sin. 



FAIRY FLAX, a flax so called from its delicacy, 



Linum catharticum, L. 



FALLEN STARS, from their sudden appearance glittering 

 on gravel walks after a night's growth, certain gelatinous 

 fungi, and particularly Tremella Nostoc, L. 



FANCY, an attempted explanation of Pansy, 



Viola tricolor, L. 



FAT HEN, G. Fette ffenne, a name given in Germany 

 and by the older herbalists to the orpine, Sedum telephium, 

 called also faba crassa, fat bean, but without any reason 

 assigned. It has been of late years transferred in England 

 to plants of the Goosefoot tribe, and more particularly to 

 the Good Henry, which a correspondent of Seeman's 

 Journal (vol. i. p. 151), asserts to have been used formerly 



