156 POPULAR NAMES 



MOLT, the name of a plant in Homer's Odyssey, and 

 occasionally introduced into modern poetry, as in Milton's 

 Comus, 1. 636, but not identified with any known species, 

 and probably meant by Homer to be understood allegori- 

 cally. See note on this subject in Hawkins's Milton, 

 v. iv. p. 89. 



MONEY-FLOWER, from its glittering round dissepiments 

 left after the falling of the valves, Lunaria biennis, L. 



MONEY-WORT, from its round leaves, 



Lysimachia Nummularia, L. 



CORNISH-, from its round leaves, and its growing 

 in Cornwall, Sibthorpia europgea, L. 



MONKSHOOD, from the resemblance of the upper sepal to 

 the cowl of a monk, Aconitum Napellus, L. 



MONK'S RHUBARB, a dock that, according to Tabernse- 

 montanus (p. 824), was so called, " dieweil die wurzel der 

 Rhabarbaren ahnlich ist, und von den Barfiissern und 

 Carthaiisern in den klostern eine zeitlang heimlich gehal- 

 ten ;" according to Parkinson, from its being the dock 

 described as a rhubarb by the monks who commented upon 

 Mesues. Rumex Patientia, L. 



MOON DAISY, a large daisy-like flower resembling the 

 pictures of a full moon, the type of a class of plants, which, 

 on the doctrine of signatures, were exhibited in uterine 

 complaints, and dedicated in pagan times to the goddess of 

 the moon and regulator of monthly periods, Artemis, 

 whom Horsley (on Hosea ix. 10) would identify with Isis, 

 the goddess of the Egyptians, with Juno Lucina, and with 

 Eileithuia, a deity who had special charge over the functions 

 of women ; an office in Roman Catholic mythology assigned 

 to Mary Magdalene and Margaret. See MAUDLIN, MAR- 

 GUERITE, and MAGHET. 



Chrysanthemum leucanthemum, L. 



MOON-WORT, a fern so called from the semilunar shape 

 of the segments of its frond, Botrychium Lunaria, Sw. 



