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HEATH, IRISH-, or ST. DABEOC'B-, 



Menziesia polifolia, L. 



SEA-, Frankenia pulverulenta, L. 



HEATH-CYPRESS, from its resemblance to a small cypress 

 tree, and its growth upon heathy ground, 



Lycopodium alpinum, L. 



HEATH-PEA, from its pea-like esculent tuber, and usually 

 growing upon sandy heaths, 



Lathy rus macrorrhizus, Wim. 



HEDGE BELLS, G. zaun-glocke, a local, but expressive 

 name for the larger bindweed, Convolvulus sepium, L. 



HEDGEHOG PARSLEY, from its prickly burs, 



Caucalis daucoides, L. 



HEDGE HYSSOP, a name transferred from a foreign 

 species, a Gratiola, to the lesser skullcap, 



Scutellaria minor, L. 



HEDGE-MAIDS, see HAYMAIDS. 



HEDGE MUSTARD, Sisymbrium officinale, L. 



HEDGE NETTLE, or -DEAD NETTLE, Stachys sylvatica, L. 



HEDGE PARSLEY, Caucalis Anthriscus, H. 



HEDGE TAPER, see HIG-TAPER. 



HEDGE THORN, see HAWTHORN. 



HEDGE VINE, the Virgin's bower, Clematis Vitalba, L. 



HEG-BERRY, HEDGE-BERRY, HAG-, or HACK-BERRY, Sw. 

 hdgg, N. and Da. hcegebwr, " a wood berry," from a wood 

 being in the northern counties called a hag, a word related 

 to A.S. hege, hedge, Prunus Padus, L. 



HELL-WEED, dodder, so called from the trouble and ruin 

 it causes in flax fields. Threlkeld observes, that " after it 

 has fastened upon a plant, it quits the root, and like a 

 coshering parasite lives upon another's trencher, and first 

 starves, and then kills its entertainer. For which reason 

 irreligious clowns curse it by the name of Hell-weed and 

 Deoil's-guts." Cuscuta, L. 



