112 POPULAR NAMES 



stalk like a trulove-knot, the emblem of an engagement, 

 whence its synonym, Herb Trulove, 



Paris quadrifolia, L. 



HERB PETER, the cowslip, from its resemblance to St. 

 Peter's badge, a bunch of keys, whence its G. name, 

 schlussel-blume, Primula veris, L. 



HERB ROBERT, a geranium, that according to Adelung, 

 was so called from its being used to cure a disease known 

 in Germany as the Ruprechts-Plage, from Robert, duke of 

 Normandy, for whom was written the celebrated medical 

 treatise of the middle ages, the " Regimen Sanitatis Saler- 

 nitanum," or " Schola Salernitana." In some old writers 

 it is called Sancti Ruperti kerba. See Bauhin de plant, 

 sanct. p. 81. There are four saints of that name, and one 

 of them, a bishop of Salzburg, is said by Alban Butler in 

 his Lives of the Saints to have cured all the maladies of 

 body and soul. In a MS. vocabulary of the 13th century, 

 in Rel. Ant. vol. i. p. 37, it occurs as " Herba Roberti, 

 Herb Robert." Adelung's explanation is probably the cor- 

 rect one. Geranium Robertianum, L. 



HERB TRINITY, L. Herba Trinitatis, G. dreifaltigTceits- 

 blume, from having three colours combined in one flower, 

 the pansy, Viola tricolor, L. 



and also from having three leaflets combined into one leaf, 



Anemone hepatica, L. 



HERB TWOPENCE, from its pairs of round leaves, the 

 moneywort, Lysimachia Nummularia, L. 



HERB WILLIAM, in R. Turner's Botanologia, p. 45, 



Ammi majus, L. 



HERON'S BILL, from the shape of the seed vessel, 



Erodium, L'Her. 



HIG TAPER, HAG-TAPER, in Turner, HYGGIB-TAPER, in 

 Lupton, i. 3, HEDGE-TAPER, incorrectly spelt in our floras 

 High- taper, either from A.S. hig or hyg, hay and taper, 

 meaning a taper made of dry herbage, or from A.S. liege or 



