134 POPULAR NAMES 



LETTUCE, FROG'S-, Potamogeton densus, L. 



,, LAMB'S-, Valerianella olitoria, Mn. 



WALL-, a plant of the lettuce tribe found upon 

 walls, Prenanthes muralis, L. 



LICHEN, Gr. \i-)(r)v, a tetter, from its roundish, leprous- 

 looking apothecia, as seen upon old buildings, Lichen, L. 



LICHWALE, or, as in a MS. of the fifteenth century, 

 LYTHEWALE, stone-switch, the gromwell, so called in allu- 

 sion to its stony seeds, and their medicinal use in cases of 

 calculus, from Gr. Xt#o9, a stone, through M.Lat. licho or 

 lincho, a pebble, as in the Grant herbier, where the lapis 

 demonis is called lincho- and licko-d.em.oma, and. wale, O.Fr. 

 waule, now gaule, from the Breton gwalen, a switch, 



Lithospermum officinale, L. 



LICHWORT, from its growing on stones (see LICHWALE), 

 the wall-pellitory, Parietaria officinalis, L. 



LILAC, a Persian word introduced with the shrub, 



Syringa vulgaris, L. 



LILY, L. lilium, Gr. \eipiov, of unknown, very ancient 

 origin, used in some oriental languages for a flower in 

 general, as in Cant. vi. 2-3, and Mat. vi. 23, and as rosje, 

 rose, is used in the Illyrian ; a trope of frequent occurrence 

 among all nations, particularly the less cultivated races. 



Lilium. 



,, CHECKERED-, the fritillary, from the markings on 

 its petals, Fritillaria Meleagris, L. 



WATER-, Nymphsea alba, L. 



LILY-AMONG-THORNS, of Canticles ii. 2, L. Lilium inter 

 spinas, understood by the herbalists as the woodbine, 

 which, as W. Bulleyn says, " spredeth forth his sweete 

 lilies like ladies' fingers among the thorns," 



Lonicera Caprifolium, L. 



LlLY-OF-THE-VALLEY, Or LlLY-CONVALLY, L. Mum COn- 



vallium, lily of combes or hollows, a name taken from Cant, 

 ii. 1, " I am the lily of the valleys," 



Convallaria majalis, L. 



