140 POPULAR NAMES 



tur. Noctibus lucere aiunt, crescente Luna. Colligi 

 oportere sestate pridie Divi Joannis Baptistse, Luna plena, 

 ante ortum Soils ; crescit enim (aiunt), et decrescit cum 

 Luna." Gesner observes that "the chymists, who first 

 wrote in this way, and those who have since believed them, 

 were either ignorant men, who easily and rashly placed 

 reliance in the fables of others, and published monstrous 

 descriptions of plants that have no existence ; or signified 

 by enigmatical descriptions, not any plants, but things very 

 different, as by the name of chelidonium and efydrium, I 

 know not what quintessence or philosopher's stone." As at 

 present understood, it is the fern that from its semilunar 

 fronds is called Moonwort, Botrychium Lunaria, L. 



LUNG-FLOWER a translation of Gr. TrvevpovavQr), from 

 TTvev/jiwv, lungs, and av0os, flower, 



Gentiana Pneumonanthe, L. 



LUNG-WORT, L. pulmonaria, from pulmo, lungs, being 

 supposed, from its spotted leaves, to be a remedy for dis- 

 eased lungs, P. officinalis, L. 

 TREE-, Sticta pulmonaria, Hook. 



LUPINE, L. lupinm, literally "wolfish," but supposed to 

 be related to Gr. XOTTO? or Xo/3o9, a husk, and XeTrw, hull or 

 peel. If we had any reason to think it an Asiatic genus 

 that was introduced into Italy, we might explain its name 

 as a translation of Xu/teios, Lycian, mistaken for an adjective 

 from \VKO<?, a wolf. Wedgwood's derivation of it from a 

 Slavonian root is, for reasons geographical and historical, 

 quite inadmissible. Lupinus, L. 



LUSTWORT, a name translated from Du. loopich-cruydt, 

 which, according to Dodoens, has that meaning, and has 

 been given to the plant, he says, " quia acrimonia sua 

 sopitum Veneris desiderium excitet," the sundew, 



Drosera, L. 



LYME-GRASS, from L. elymiis, E. europseus, L. 



LYON'S SNAP, from L. Leontostomium, Gr. Xeoj/?, and 



