196 POPULAR NAMES 



ROAN-TREE, See ROWAN. 



ROAST-BEEF, from the smell of the bruised leaf, the 

 stinking gladdon, Iris foetidissima, L. 



ROBIN-RUN-IN-THE- HEDGE, LlZZY-RUN-UP- THE -HEDGE, 



names of the ground ivy, which seem to have been given 

 to it from confusion of gill, ferment, Fr. guiller, with gill, 

 a girl. See GILL and HAYMAIDS. Nepeta Glechoma, B. 



ROCAMBOLE, Fr. rocambolle, a word of uncertain deriva- 

 tion, Allium Scorodoprasum, L. 



ROCK-CRESS, from its alliance to the cresses, and its 

 growth upon rocks, Arabis stricta and petraa, Lam. 

 ROCK-MOSS, a lichen that grows on rocks, 



Roccella tinctoria, Ag. 



ROCK-ROSE, a name that properly belongs to the Cisti, 

 with which the English representatives of the order were 

 once comprised, from the resemblance of some of them to 

 a rose, and their growth on rocks, Helianthemum, L. 



ROCK-TRIPE, Fr. tripe de rocke, an edible lichen, upon 

 which Sir J. Franklin and his companions supported them- 

 selves in Arctic America, and so called from some fancied 

 resemblance, Gyrophora vellea, Ach. 



ROCKET, Fr. roquette, It. rucchetta, dim. of L. eruca, 



Eruca sativa, Lam. 



,, BASE-, or DYER'S-, Reseda lutea, L. 



,, BASTARD-, Brassica Erucastrum, L. 



DAME'S-, or GARDEN-, or WHITE-, 



Hesperis matronalis, L. 



,, LONDON-, Sisymbrium Irio, L. 



,, SEA-, Cakile maritima, L. 



WALL-, Brassica muralis, Bois. 



WINTER-, or YELLOW-, Barbarea vulgaris, RB. 

 ROGATION-FLOWER, from its flowering in Rogation week, 

 the next but one before Whitsuntide, when processions 

 were made to perambulate the parishes with the Holy 

 Cross and Litanies, to mark the boundaries, and invoke 



