OF BRITISH PLANTS. 99 



Med. M.S. 1. 864 (Archaeol. v. xxx. p. 376) is given to the 

 periwinkle : 



Parvenh is an erbe grene of colour ; 



In tyme of may he beryth bio flour. 



His stalkys are so feynt and feye, 



That never more groweth he heye. 



On the grownde he rennyth and growe, 



As doth the erbe that hyth tunhowe. 



The lef is thicke, schinende, and styf, 



As is the grene ivy leef ; 



Unche brod and nerhand rownde ; 



Men call it the ivy of the grownde. 



From the periwinkle the name has been transferred to a 

 labiate plant, Nepeta Glechoma, Benth. 



GROUND PINE, Gr. xa/iatTrn-v? from %a/u, ground-, and 

 TTITVS, pine, so called from its terebinthinate odour, the 

 forget-me-not of all authors till the beginning of this cen- 

 tury, Ajuga Chamsepitys, Sm. 



GROUNDSEL, in a MS. of the fifteenth century gronde- 

 swyle, A.S. grundswelge, ground glutton, from grund, ground, 

 and swelgan, swallow, still called in Scotland and on the 

 Eastern Border grundy-swattow, Senecio vulgaris, L. 



GUELDER ROSE, from its rose-like balls of white flowers, 

 and Gueldres, its native country, a variety of the water- 

 elder, Viburnum Opulus, L. 



GUERNSEY-LILY, from its occurrence on that island, 



Nerine sarniensis, W. 



GULF-WEED, from its floating on the gulf-stream, 



Fucus natans, L. 



GUINEA HEN, from its Latin name, Meleagris, given to it 

 from its petals being spotted like this bird, a native of the 

 Guinea coast of Africa, Fritillaria Meleagris, L. 



HAG-BERRY see HEG-BERRY. 



HAG-TAPER, G. unholdenkerze. Gerarde tells us that 

 " Apuleius reporteth a tale of Ulysses, Mercuric, and the 



