108 POPULAR NAMES 



HELLEBORE, L. helleborus, Gr. eXtefiopos, a word of 

 doubtful origin, at present applied to certain ranunculaceous 

 plants, but not so in ancient works. 



,, BLACK-, the Christmas rose, H. niger, L. 



FETID-, or STINKING-, H. foetidus, L. 



GREEN-, H. viridis, L. 



,, WINTER-, Eranthis hyemalis, S. 



HELLEBORINE, from the resemblance of its leaves to those 

 of a veratrum called "white hellebore," Epipactis, RB. 

 HELM, see HALM. Psamma arenaria, PB. 



HELMET-FLOWER, from the shape of the corolla, 



Scutellaria, L. 



HEMLOCK, or, as Gerarde spells it, HOMLOCK, A.S. /teem 

 or kealm, straw or haulm, and leac, plant, so called from 

 the dry hollow stalks that remain after flowering ; a name 

 originally applied to any of the Umbelliferae, at present 

 confined to two poisonous species. 



COMMON-, Conium maculatum, L. 



,, WATER-, Cicuta virosa, L. 



HEMP, A.S. hcenep, It. canapa, Gr. Kavvapis, from an 

 Oriental root, Pers. keneb, Ar. kinneb, or qunnab, Arm. 

 ganap. Herodotus speaks of the plant, (b. iv. c. 74) as a 

 novelty lately introduced into Thrace from Scythia. 



Cannabis sativa, L. 



HEMP-AGRIMONY, from the resemblance of the leaves to 

 those of hemp, and its being classed by the old Herbalists 

 with agrimony under the general name of Eupatorium, or, 

 as Gerarde writes it, Hepatorium, E. cannabinum, L. 



HEMP-NETTLE, or more properly HEMP-DEAD-NETTLE, 

 from its flowers resembling those of the dead-nettles, and 

 its leaves the leaflets of hemp, Galeopsis Tetrahit, L. 



HENBANE, a plant so called from the baneful effects of 

 its seed upon poultry, of which Matthioli says (1. iv. c. 64) 

 that " birds, especially gallinaceous birds, that have eaten 

 the seeds perish soon after, as do fishes also." In old works 



