118 POPULAR NAMES 



suggested by that of another labiate plant, melissa, Gr. 

 /LteXtcro-a, honey, but may very possibly be a corruption of 

 Lat. Urinaria ; the plant having been regarded as one of 

 great efficacy in cases of strangury and dysuria. See Ort. 

 Sanit. ch. 256. Marrubium vulgare, L. 



HOREHOUND, BLACK-, from its dark flowers, 



Ballota nigra. L. 

 WATER-, Lycopus europseus, L. 



HORE-STRANGE, or -STRANG, from its supposed virtue in 

 strangury. See HARSTRONG. 



HORNBEAM, or -BEECH, from its wood being used to yoke 

 horned cattle, " as well by the Romans in old time," says 

 Gerarde, p. 1479, " as in our own, and growing so hard and 

 tough with age as to be more like horn than wood," 



Carpinus Betulus, L. 



HORNWORT, from its bi- and tri-furcate leaves, 



Ceratophyllum, L. 



HORNED POPPY, from its long curved horn-like seedpods, 



Glaucium luteum, L. 



HORSE-BANE, from its being supposed in Sweden to 

 cause in horses a kind of palsy, an effect that has been 

 ascribed by Linnaeus not so much to the noxious qualities 

 of the plant itself, as to an insect, curculio paraplecticus, 

 that breeds in its stem (Syst. Nat. 610), 



(Enanthe Phellandrium, Lam. 



HORSE-BEAN, the variety of bean grown for the food of 

 horses, Vicia Faba, L. 



HORSE-BEECH, see HURST-BEECH, of which it is a corrup- 

 tion. 



HORSE-CHESTNUT, said to be called so from its fruit being 

 used in Turkey, the country from which we received it, as 

 food for " horses that are broken or touched in the wind ; " 

 see Selby, p. 34. Parkinson says (Th. Bot. p. 1402) : 

 " Horse chesnuts are given in the East, and so through all 

 Turkic, unto Horses to cure them of the cough, short- 

 nesse of winde, and such other diseases." In this country 



