136 POPULAR NAMES 



LIQUORICE-VETCH, a vetch-like plant with a sweet root, 

 M. Lat. liquiricia, from L. glycyrrhiza, Gr. 7\ivo;9, sweet, 

 and pi&, root, Astragalus glycyphyllus, L. 



LIRY-CONFANCY, a corruption of L. lilium convallium, lily 

 of the valleys, Convallaria majalis, L. 



LITHY-TREE, from A.S. Ifa, pliant, a word etymologi- 

 cally identical with lind (See LINDEN,) ; the tree being so 

 called, because, as Parkinson says: (Th. Bot. p. 1448,) 

 " the branches hereof are so tough and strong withall, that 

 they serve better for bands to tye bundels or any other thing 

 withall, or to make wreathes to hold together the gates of 

 fields, then either withy or any other the like," the way- 

 farer tree, Viburnum Lantana, L. 



LITMUS, G. lackmus, from lac, Skr. laksha, a red dye, 

 and moos, moss, a lichen, in popular language a moss, used 

 in dyeing, Eoccella tinctoria, DC. 



LITTLEGOOD, a plant so called on the Eastern Border 

 (Johnst.) to distinguish it from the allgood, 



Euphorbia Helioscopia, L. 



LIVELONG, or LIBLONG, from its remaining alive hung 

 up in a room. Brande in Pop. Ant. says that it is a habit 

 with girls to set up two plants of it, one for themselves 

 and another for their lover, upon a slate or trencher, on 

 Midsummer eve, and to estimate the lover's fidelity by his 

 plant living and turning to theirs, or not. The name should 

 probably be " Livelong and Liblong " (Live long and Love 

 long). See MIDSUMMER MEN. Sedum Telephium, L. 



LIVERWORT, from the liver shape of the thallus, and its 

 supposed effects in disease of the liver. See Brunschwygk, 

 (b. ii. c. 11). Marchantia polymorpha, L. 



GROUND-, Peltidea canina, Ach. 



NOBLE-, in America called Liverleaf, and from its 

 three-lobed leaves supposed to be, as Lyte tells us, (b. i. 

 ch. 40,) " a sovereign medicine against the heate and in- 

 flammation of the liver," Anemone hepatica, L. 



