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it is assigned to the meadow clover, which in our Western 

 counties is still called so. This, too, is the plant meant by 

 the rede hony suckle gres in the Stockholm Med. M.S. 

 (Archseol. v. xxx. p. 399). The name seems to have been 

 transferred to the woodbine on account of the honey-dew 

 so plentifully deposited on its leaves. But it is not at all 

 clear, what is the proper meaning of the word honeysuckle. 

 In poetry and popular usage, Lonicera, L. 



but in farmer's language, the meadow clover, 



Trifolium pratense, L. 



HONEYSUCKLE, DWARF-, Cornus suecica, L. 



FLY-, Lonicera xylosteum, L. 



,, FRENCH-, a plant used on the Continent for forage 

 as the meadow clover is with us ; a foreign honeysuckle- 

 clover ; Hedysarum coronarium, L. 



HONEY-WARE, A.S. war, sea-weed, and honey from its 

 being covered with a layer of sugar, " dont les Islandais se 

 servent tres bien," says Duchesne, p. 364. Alaria esculenta, 

 and Laminaria saccharina, Lam. 



HOODED MILFOIL, Fr. millefeuille, thousand leaf, from 

 its very finely divided leaves and the hood shape of its 

 corolla, Utricularia vulgaris, L. 



HOOK-HEAL, from its being supposed on the doctrine of 

 signatures to heal wounds from a bill-hook, which its 

 corolla was thought to resemble, Prunella vulgaris, L. 



HOP, a name adopted from the Netherlands with the 

 culture of the plant, L. Ger. happen, G. hopfe, M. Lat. hupa, 

 possibly connected with words that mean " head," as haupt, 

 haube, etc. but only by an accidental coincidence approach- 

 ing the Fr. houblon, Humulus Lupulus, L. 



HOP-CLOVER, from the resemblance of its fruiting 

 capitules to little heads of hop, 



Trifolium procumbens, and agrarium, L. 



HOREHOUND, A S. hara-hune, from hara, hoary, and hune, 

 honey, a name that may have been, and most likely was, 



