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hreod is also found in the Lat. harundo of several MSS. and 

 inscriptions. The root of the word unknown. 



Arundo Phragmites, L. 



REED-MACE, from the " Ecce homo " pictures, and 

 familiar statues of Jesus in his crown of thorns, with this 

 reed-like plant in his hand as a mace or sceptre, 



Typha latifolia, L. 



REINDEER-MOSS, a lichen on which the reindeer feeds, 

 Cladonia rangiferina, Hoffm. 



REST-HARROW, arrest-harrow, Fr. arrete-bceuf, from its 

 strong matted roots impeding the progress of plough and 

 harrow, Ononis arvensis, L. 



RHINE-BERRIES, the fruit of the buckthorn, Du. rhyn- 

 besien, G. rainbeere, a name explained by Lyte (b. vi. 

 c. 30) as meaning berries from the Rhine, by Adelung 

 derived from rain, a boundary, the usual place of growth 

 of the shrub, but perhaps from L. rhamnus, 



Rhamnus catharticus, L. 



RHUBARB, M.Lat. rha, from its oriental name raved, and 

 barbarum, foreign, to distinguish this, a plant of the Volga, 

 from the Rha ponticum, another kind from the Roman 

 province, Pontus, Rheum, L. 



MONK'S-, Rumex Patientia, L. 



RIBBON-GRASS, the striped variety of 



Digraph's arundinacea, PB. 



RIBWORT, or RIBGRASS, from the strong parallel veins in 

 its leaves, Plantago lanceolata, L. 



RIE-GRASS, a name that through some confusion between 

 rie and ray is by many farmers wrongly applied to the ray- 

 grass, a perennial darnel, Lolium perenne, L. 

 but by Ray, by Martyn in his Flora Rustica, and all care- 

 ful writers assigned, with more propriety, to the meadow 

 barley, the flowering spike of which somewhat resembles 

 that of rye, Hordeum pratense, L. 



RISH, the old spelling of rush 



