82 POPULAR NAMES 



MALE-, of Gerarde, Hill, Curtis, and others, from 

 its soft velvety leaves, Linaria spuria, L. 



FEMALE-, Veronica Chamaedrys, L. 



FLYBANE, from its being used mixed with milk to kill 

 flies, Agaricus muscarius, L. 



FLY HONEYSUCKLE, from confusion with an Apocynum 

 that catches flies by the proboscis under its anthers, the 

 A. androsaemifolium, L. and whose flowers are somewhat 

 similar to those of the upright honeysuckle, 



Lonicera Xylosteum, L. 

 FLY ORCHIS, from the resemblance of its flower to a fly, 



Ophrys muscifera, Hud. 

 FOLEFOOT, from the shape of its leaf, 



Asarum europium, L. and Tussilago Farfara, L. 

 FOOL'S PARSLEY, from its being a poisonous plant, which 

 only fools could mistake for parsley, 



JEthusa Cynapium, L. 



FOREBITTEN MORE, bitten-off root, see DEVIL'S-BIT, more 

 or mor having formerly had the sense of " root," as it has 

 still in the Western counties, Scabiosa succisa, L. 



FORGET-ME-NOT, a name that for about forty years has 

 been assigned to a well known blue flower, a Myosotis, but 

 which for more than 200 years had in this country, France, 

 and the Netherlands, been given to a very different plant, 

 the ground-pine, Ajuga Chamsepitys, on account, as was 

 said, of the nauseous taste that it leaves in the mouth. It 

 is to this plant exclusively that we find it assigned by 

 Lyte, Lobel, Gerarde, Parkinson, and all our herbalists 

 from the middle of the fifteenth century, and by all other 

 botanical authors who mention the plant, inclusive of Gray 

 in his Natural Arrangement published in 1821, until it 

 was transferred with the pretty story of a drowned lover 

 to that which now bears it. This had always been called 

 in England Mouse- ear Scorpion-grass. In Germany, Fuchs 

 in his Hist. Plant. Basil, 1542, gives the name Vergiss nit 



