122 POPULAR NAMES 



ICELAND Moss, a lichen so called from its abundance in 

 Iceland, whence it is imported for medicinal and culinary 

 purposes, Cetraria Islandica, Ach. 



INUL, L. Inula, see ELECAMPANE. 



IREOS, the genitive case of iris, used by apothecaries to 

 mean the orrice root, radix being understood. See ORRICE. 



IRISH HEATH, from its occurrence chiefly in the west of 

 Ireland, Menziesia polifolia, Jus. 



IRISH, or CARRAGEEN Moss, a sea-weed so called, im- 

 ported from Ireland, Chondrus crispus, Lyngb. 



IRON-HEADS, from the resemblance of its knobbed invo- 

 lucre to a weapon with an iron ball fixed to a long handle, 

 called a Loggerhead, Centaurea nigra, L. 



IRON-WORT, a translation of its Lat. name, Sideritis, from 

 Gr. a-iSrjpov, iron, a name formerly applied to several 

 different plants, supposed to heal wounds from iron 

 weapons, but now confined to a genus of Labiatse, of 

 which we have no British representative. In Jacob's 

 Plant. Faversh. Galeopsis Ladanum, L. 



IVRAY, Fr. ivraie, drunkenness. See RAY-GRASS. 



IVY, in MS. Sloane, No. 3489, 3, spelt Ivyne, A.S. ifg, 

 a word strangely mixed up with the names of the yew- 

 tree, O.H.G. ebah, from which, according to Grimm, arose 

 ebowe, ebhowe, ebihowe, ephou, epheu, and in Alsace eppkau. 

 It seems to have originated with the Lat. abiga, used by 

 Pliny as the name of the plant called in Greek Chamse- 

 pitys, and uiiswritten by some copyist ajuga, which was 

 further corrupted to the M. Lat. wa. See YEW. Looking 

 at the names of the two trees, the Ivy and the Yew, in the 

 different languages of Europe, we cannot doubt that they 

 are in reality the same word. Indeed in Hofer's " Worter- 

 buch der in Oberdeutschland ublichen Mundart" we find 

 that Ive or Ivenbaum belongs equally to one or the other. 

 In English we get ivy from iva, and yew from the same 

 word, written iua. The source of the confusion seems to 



