124 POPULAR NAMES 



is, a sun that turns about, the sun-flower, to which genus 

 this plant belongs. By a quibble on Jerusalem the soup 

 made from it is called " Palestine." 



Helianthus tuberosus, L. 



JERUSALEM COWSLIP, from being like a cowslip " floribus 

 primulse veris purpureis," as described by Lobel, and from 

 having been confounded under the name of Phlomis with 

 the Sage of Jerusalem, Pulmonaria officinalis, L. 



JERUSALEM CROSS, from an occasional variety of it with 

 four instead of five petals, of the colour and form of a 

 Jerusalem cross, Lychnis chalcedouica, L. 



JERUSALEM, OAK OF-, called oak from the resemblance of 

 its leaf in an outline picture to that of the oak, and its 

 confusion under the name of xajjuuSpvs, ground oak, with 

 the Cheuopodium Botrys. The Jerusalem seems here as 

 in other cases to stand as a vague name for a distant foreign 

 country. Teucrium Botrys, L. 



STAR OF-, It. girasole, turn-sun, in allusion to the 

 popular belief that it turns with the sun, whence it was 

 also called solsecle, from Lat. solsequium, A.S. sol-sece, (see 

 JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE ;) and star from the stellate expan- 

 sion of the involucre. See SALSIFY". 



Tragopogon porrifolius, L. 



JEWS-EARS, L. auricula Judee, a fungus resembling the 

 human ear, and usually growing from trunks of the elder, 

 the tree upon which the legend represents Judas as having 

 hanged himself. Mandeville tells us that he saw the very 

 tree. Exidia auricula Judse, Fries. 



JOAN-, or JONE-SILVER-PIN, the red poppy, called so, as 

 Parkinson tells us, p. 367, because it is " Fair without and 

 foul within," alluding to its showy flower and staining 

 yellow juice. According to Forby the term " Joan's silver 

 pin " means among the East Anglians " a single article of 

 finery produced occasionally and ostentatiously among dirt 

 and sluttery," and in this sense too it is a fit name for this 



