100 POPULAR NAMES 



inchauntresse Circe using these herbes in their incantation 

 and witchcrafts." See HIGTAPER, in our Modern Floras 

 incorrectly spelt Hightaper. Verbascum Thapsus, L. 



HAIR-BELL, an unauthorized but very plausible correc- 

 tion of the more usual spelling, Harebell, a name descrip- 

 tive of the bell-shaped flowers and delicate stalks of the 

 plant, Campanula rotundifolia, L. 



HAIR-GRASS, an imitation of its Latin name, Aira, L. 



HALLELUJAH, the wood-sorrel, from its blossoming be- 

 tween Easter and Whitsuntide, the season at which the 

 Psalms were sung which end with that word, those, namely, 

 from the 113th to the 117th inclusive. It bears the same 

 name in German, French, Italian, and Spanish for the 

 same reason. There is a statement in some popular works, 

 that it was upon the ternate leaf of this plant that St. 

 Patrick proved to his rude audience the possibility of a 

 Trinity in Unity, and that it was from this called Hallelu- 

 jah ; an assertion for which there is no ground whatever. 



Oxalis Acetosella, L. 



HALM or HAULM, A.S. healm, straw, Du. helm and halm, 

 O.H.G. halam, Russ. slama, from L. calamus, Gr. KaXapos, 

 Skr. kalama, its root hal, conceal, cover, from its early and 

 general use as thatch. Psamma arenaria. 



HARD-BEAM, from the hardness of its wood, the horn- 

 beam, Carpinus Betulus, L. 



HARD-GRASS, Rottboellia incurvata, L. 



HARD-HAY, G. hartheu, or as it is spelt in old writers, 

 harthau, from its hard stalks, 



Hypericum quadrangulare, L. 



HARD-HEADS, from the resemblance of its knotty in- 

 volucre to a weapon called a loggerhead, a ball of iron on 

 a long handle, Centaurea nigra, L. 



HARDOCK, a word that occurs in the oldest editions of 

 Shakspeare, in K. Lear (Act iv. sc. 4), but in later ones is 

 wrongly replaced with Harlock. It seems to mean the 



