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HARSTRONG, or HORESTRONG, Du. harstrang, G. harn- 

 stranye, strangury, from, its supposed curative powers in 

 this complaint, Peucedanum officinale, L. 



HART'S CLOVER, the melilot, so called, says R. Turner 

 (Bot. p. 199), "because deer delight to feed on it," 



Melilotus officinalis, L. 



HART'S-HORN, from its furcated leaves, 



Plantago Coronopus, L. 



HART'S-THORN, Florio in v., the buckthorn, L. spina 

 cervina, Rhamnus catharticus, L. 



HART'S-TONGUE, from the shape of the frond, the Lingua 

 cervina of the apothecaries, 



Scolopendrium vulgare, Gart. 



HARTWORT, so called, because, as Parkinson tells us, 

 (Th. Bot. p. 908), "Pliny saith that women use it before 

 their delivery, to help them at that time, being taught by 

 hindes that eate it to speade their delivery, as Aristotle did 

 declare it before." Tordylium maximum, L. 



HARVEST-BELLS, from its season of flowering, 



Gentian a Pneumonanthe, L. 



HASK-WORT, a plant used for the hask or inflamed trachea, 

 being from its open throat-like appearance supposed, on the 

 doctrine of signatures, to cure throat diseases. Hask in 

 the Pr. Pm. is set down as synonymous with harske, austere, 

 Sw. and Du. harsh, a term applied to fruits. Turner writes 

 it harrish, as " dates are good for the harrishnes or rough- 

 nes of the throte," or what we should at present call 

 huskiness. Campanula latifolia, L. 



HASSOCKS, A.S. cassuc, rushes, sedges and coarse grasses. 

 " In Norfolk coarse grass which grows in rank tufts on 

 boggy ground is termed hassock." A. Way in Pr. Pm. in 

 v. " Hassock." The use of this term for the thick matted 

 foot-stools used in churches seems to be taken from the 

 application to such purpose of the natural tumps of a large 

 sedge, the Carex paniculata, L. 



