78 POPULAR NAMES 



FERN, OAK-, of the herbalists, with a belief that such 

 plants of it as grew upon the roots of the oak-tree, were 

 of greater medicinal power: "quod nascit super radices 

 quercus, est efficacius :" (Herbarius, c. 103.) the common 

 polypody, Polypodium vulgare, L. 



PARSLEY-, Allosorus crispus, Bern. 



SCALY-, from the scales on the frond, 



Ceterach officinarum, "W. 



SHIELD-, from the coverings of its spore-cases, 



Aspidium, Sw. 

 WALL-, from its ordinary place of growth, 



Polypodium vulgare, L. 

 FESCUE, from the L.festuca, by change of t to c, 



F. ovina, L. etc. 



FEVERFEW, L, febrifuga, from its supposed febrifuge 

 qualities, Pyrethrum Parthenium, L. 



FIELD CYPRESS, the ground pine, from its terebinthinate 

 odour and divided leaves, Ajuga Chameepitys, Schr. 

 FIELD MADDER, Sherardia arvensis, L. 



FIG, ^T.fgue, L.Jicus, F. Carica, L. 



FIG-WORT, from its use, on the doctrine of signatures, in 

 the disease called ficus, Scrophularia, L. 



and also, for the same reason, Ranunculus Ficaria, L. 



FILBERT, formerly spelt Filberd, and Fylberde, said by 

 some to have been so called after a king Philibert ; by 

 Wedgwood explained as Fill-beard; but more probably a 

 barbarous compound of phyllon or feuille, leaf, and beard, 

 to denote its distinguishing peculiarity, the leafy involucre 

 projecting beyond the nut, Corylus Avellana, L. 



FINCKLE, G. fenckel, Du. venkel, from L. fceniculum, 

 fennel, F. vulgare, L. 



FINGER-FLOWER, G. finger-hut, L. digitalis, from the re- 

 semblance of its flower to the finger of a glove, 



D. purpurea, L. 

 FIORIN, Erse/ear^, grass, Agrostis alba, L. 



