OF BRITISH PLANTS. 131 



Herbal. See Gasp. Bauhin, de Plantis sanctis, p. 67. 

 The original and right plant, 



Convallaria polygonatum, L. 

 The plant of modern writers, Tamus communis, L. 



LADY'S SLIPPER, from the shape of the labellum of its 

 flower, Cypripedium Calceolus, L. 



LADY'S SMOCK, from the resemblance of its white flowers 

 to little smocks hung out to dry, as they used to be once a 

 year, at that season especially, 



"When daisies pied and violets blue, 

 And lady-smocks all silver white, 

 And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue, 



Do paint the meadows with delight. 

 "When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, 



And maidens bleach their summer smocks, etc. 

 Shaksp. L.LX. v. 2. 



Cardamine pratensis, L. 

 LADY'S THIMBLE, called also WITCH'S THIMBLE, 



Campanula rotundifolia, L. 



LADY'S THISTLE, the milk thistle. See above JUNO'S 

 ROSE. Carduus Marianus, L. 



LADY'S TRESSES, from the resemblance of the flower- 

 spikes, with their protuberant ovaries placed regularly one 

 over the other, to a lady's hair braided, 



Neottia spiralis, Eich. 

 LAKE WEED, from its growth in still water, 



Polygonum Hydropiper, L. 



LAMB'S LETTUCE, formerly classed with the lettuces, and 

 called in Latin Lactuca agnina, " from appearing about the 

 time when lambs are dropped ;" See Martyn, Fl. rustica. 

 or according to Tabernsemontanus, (i. 475), because it is 

 a favourite food of lambs, Valerianella olitoria, L. 



LAMB'S QUARTERS, properly Lammas quarter, from its 

 blossoming about the first of August, old style, the 

 day of a festival instituted as a thanksgiving for the 



