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i, a hedge, the usual place of its growth. Dodoens 

 tells us that it was called candela, " folia siquidem habet 

 mollia, hirsuta, ad lucernarum fuuiculos apta ;" " a plant," 

 says the Grete Herball, "whereof is made a maner of lynke, 

 if it be talowed;" or, as Parkinson says, (Th. Bot. p. 62,) 

 " Verbascum is called of the Latines Candela regia and 

 Candelaria, because the elder age used the stalks dipped in 

 suet to burne, whether at Funeralls or otherwise." Brun- 

 felsius, ed. 1531, says, p. 197, that it is called Wull- or 

 Konig-kerz, " darum das sein stengel von vilen gedorrt 

 wiirt, iiberzogen mit harz, wachs, oder bech, und stang- 

 kerzen oder dartschen davon gemacht, und gebrannt fur 

 schaub-fackelen." Schaub means a wisp of straw, and 

 rather supports the above explanation of hig as hay. 



Verbascum Thapsus, L. 



HINDBERRY, A.S. Mndberie, a name that was once very 

 generally given to the raspberry, and is still retained in 

 some counties, derived, apparently, from hind, as the gentler, 

 the tamer kind of bramble, contrasted with the heorot-berie, 

 the hart-berry. Adelung suggests its derivation from Lat. 

 Idaeus, by a change that is quite consistent with analogy, 

 viz. prefixing an h to the initial vowel, and an n before d. 

 Ray's explanation, " forte sic dicta, quia inter hinnulos et 

 cervos, i.e. in sylvis et saltibus crescunt," is very unsatis- 

 factory, a mere guess, as are nearly all his explanations of 

 English names. Rubus idaeus, L. 



HINDHEAL, A.S. hind-hele, -heoltf&e, or -haleft, from its 

 curingthe hind, probably the same herb as the Elaphoboscum, 

 which deer were supposed to eat when stung by serpents, 

 and of which Lupton tells us, No. 80, that "it is said that 

 harts in Crete being struck with darts envenomed, do eat of 

 a certain herb called Dittany, and thereby the prick that 

 sticks in them, is driven out." Teucrium Scorodonia, L. 



HIP-, or HEP-ROSE, the dog-rose, that which bears the 

 hip, A.S. kiop, heap, heope, O.S. hiopa, O.H.G. hiofa, Norw. 



