OF BRITISH PLANTS. 147 



MARSH-MARIGOLD, Caltha palustris, L. 



MARSH-PARSLEY, Apium graveolens, L. 



MARSH-PENNYWORT, Hydrocotyle vulgaris, L. 



MARSH-SAMPHIRE, Salicornia herbacea, L. 



MARSH-TREFOIL, Menyanthes trifoliata, L. 



MARSH-WORTS, Vaccinium Oxycoccos, L. 



MARY-BUD, in the aubade in Cymbeline, (A. ii. sc. 3), 



" And winking Mary buds begin 

 To ope their golden eyes : " 



the marigold, Columella's " flaventia lumina calthse :" 1. 97: 

 " The Marigold that goes to bed -with the sun, 



And with him rises weeping : " Wint. T. A. iv. sc. 3 : 

 in allusion to its flowers, which, as Lyte says, " do close at 

 the setting downe of the sunne, and do spread and open 

 againe at the sunne rising : " a phenomenon to which the 

 older poets allude with great delight, both in respect to 

 this flower and the daisy. Calendula officinalis, L. 



MASER-TREE, the maple, from the bowls or drinking 

 cups, called masers, being made from the knotty parts of 

 its wood, called in O.H.G. masar, whence M. Lat. scypki 

 maserini, Du. maes-hout, from maese, a spot, O.H.G. mazel- 

 dera, masel-tree, whence G. massholder. See MAPLE. Bowls 

 made of silver and gold were called by the same name, as 

 in Kitson's Ancient Popular Poetry, p. 77, 



" Pecys of syluyr, masers of golde." 

 See Pr. Pm. p. 328, Way's note. Acer campestre, L. 



MASTER-WORT, a translation of its Latin name, Impera- 

 toria, which was understood by the herbalists as indicating 

 the masterly virtues of the plant, but has more probably 

 been given to it, with the sense of " Imperial," under the 

 idea that it was the one described by Apuleius, c. 130, as 

 having been used by Augustus under the names of Basilica 

 and Regia, as a protection against serpents : " Hac utebatur 

 Imperator Augustus." Imperatoria Ostruthium, L. 



MATFELLON, from L. mar atriphy lion, fennel-leaf, Gr. 



