132 POPULAR NAMES 



first fruits of the harvest, when an oblation was made 

 of loaves of the new corn, the A.S. hlaf-m&sse, loaf mass, 

 missa panum, in the Salisbury Manual called Benedictio 

 novorumfructuum, Atriplex patula, L. 



LAMB'S TOE, from its soft downy heads of flowers, 



Anthyllis vulneraria, L. 



LAMB'S TONGUE, Gr. apvoy\a><rcrov, from the shape of the 

 leaf, Plantago media, L. 



LANCASHIEE ASPHODEL, a plant allied to the asphodels 

 and abundant in Lancashire, Narthecium ossifragum, L. 



LANG DE BEEF, Fr. langue de bceuf, from the tongue- 

 shaped papillated surface of the leaf, 



Helminthia echioides, Gart. 



LARCH, It. larice, G. Idrche, Gr. \apij;, a name that it 

 may have derived from its use in building and carpentry, 

 L. lar, a house, O.N. and Kuss. lar, a chest, Gr. \apva%, 



Pinus Larix, L. 



LARK-SPUK, -HEEL, -TOE, or -CLAW, from the projecting 

 nectary, Delphinium, L. 



LAUREL, Sp. laurel, L. laurellus, dim. of laurus, a name 

 originally applied to the sweet bay called in Chaucer, 

 Douglas, and other early writers laurer, from Fr. laurier, 

 but subsequently extended to other evergreens, and at pre- 

 sent in common parlance confined to the cherry laurel, 



Prunus Laurocerasus, L. 



ALEXANDRIAN-, from Paris, who is called in Homer 

 Alexander, having been crowned with it as victor in the 

 public games, (Stapel in Theophrast. p. 253), whence its 

 names in Apuleius, c. 58, Daphne Aleocandrina, and 

 Stephane Alexandrina, Euscus racemosus, L. 



,, BAY-, Laurus nobilis, L. 



,, COPSE-, or SPURGE-, from its place of growth, 



Daphne Laureola, L. 

 PORTUGAL-, from its native country, 



Prunus lusitanica, L. 



