126 POPULAR NAMES 



JUNO'S TEARS, Gr. 'Hpas Saicpvov, a name that by Dios- 

 corides was given to the Coix lacryma, now called " Job's 

 tears/' in allusion to its hard, polished, bead -like seeds, but 

 through some confusion with the peristereon, as in Apuleius, 

 c. 66, transferred to the vervain, which has nothing about 

 it that resembles a tear, Verbena officinalis, L. 



JUPITER'S BEARD, Yr.joubarb, L. Jovis barba, the house- 

 leek, so called from its massive inflorescence, like the 

 sculptured beard of Jupiter. 



Quam sempervivam dicunt, quoniam viret omni 



Tempore : larba Jovis vulgar! more vocatur : 



Esse refert similem prsedictae Plinius istam. Macer. 



Sempervivum tectorum, L. 



JUPITER'S STAFF, R. Turner, Bot. p. 216, the mullein, 

 Verbascum Thapsus, L. 

 JUR-NUT, Da. jord-nod, earth-nut, 



Bunium flexuosum, L. 



KALE, see GALE. 



KATHARINE'S FLOWER, from the persistent styles spread- 

 ing like the spokes of a wheel, the symbol of St. Katharine, 

 from her having been martyred upon a wheel, 



Nigella damascena, L. 



KECKS, KEX, KECKSIES, KAXES, KIXES, or CASHES, the 

 dry hollow stalks or haulms of umbelliferous plants, so 

 called from an old English word keek or kike retained in 

 the Northern counties (Brockett) in the sense of "peep" 

 or " spy," Go. kika, Da. kige, Du, kiiken, a name suggested 

 by their most obvious peculiarity : viz., that one may look 

 through them. It is most commonly given to the stems 

 of the cow-parsnep and cow-parsley. 



KEDLOCK, or KETLOCK. See CHEDLOCK. 



KELPWARE, a sea-wrack or ware that produces kelp or 

 barilla, Fucus nodosus, and vesiculosus, L. 



