120 POPULAR NAMES 



HOUND'S-BERRY-TREE, or HOUND'B-TREE, a mistaken 

 equivalent for Dogwood ; see DOGWOOD. 



HOTJND'S-TONGUE, from the Gr. KWOJ^WO-O-OV now ap- 

 plied to a plant, of which W. Coles tells us in his Art of 

 Simpling, ch. xxvii, that "it will tye the Tongues of 

 Houndes, so that they shall not bark at you, if it be laid 

 under the bottom of your feet, as Miraldus writeth." The 

 name was probably given to the Greek plant on account 

 of the shape and soft surface of the leaf, and in contrast to 

 the rough bugloss or oxtongue. 



Cynoglossum officinale, L. 



HOUSE-LEEK, a leek or plant, A.S. leac, that grows on 

 houses, Sempervivum tectorum, L. 



HOVE, A.S. hufe, a chaplet, after its Latin name, corona, 

 Gr. <rre<aww/ia, and so called, says Parkinson, " because 

 it spreadeth as a garland upon the ground," the ground 

 ivy, also called in old MSS. Heyhowe, Heyoue, Haihoue, 

 Halehoue, and Horshoue. See Pr. Pm. p. 250, note by 

 Way. Nepeta Glechoma, Benth. 



HULST, Du. hukt, which Weiland derives from L. ilex, 

 but without accounting for the terminal st, which would 

 seem in this, and several other words, to be the Lat. cetum, 

 indicating the locality of its growth. Its immediate origin 

 would thus be ulicetum for ilicetum, a bed of ulex or ilex, 

 two names frequently confused in medieval writings, whence 

 also G. huh, and Fr. houx. Ilex Aquifolium, L. 



HULVER, in Chaucer HULFEERE, Fr. olivier, olive-tree, 

 a name given to the holly from its being strown on the road 

 in place of olive branches at the public festivals of the 

 church ; as was that of " palm," for a similar reason, to 

 the flowering branches of the willow. See quotation under 

 HOLLY. Ilex Aquifolium, L. 



,, KNEE-, the butcher's broom, see under KNEE-. 

 SEA-, from its prickly leaves, 



Eryngium maritimum, L. 



