230 POPULAR NAMES 



The Sicamour of Chaucer in his Flower and Leaf (1. 54) 

 was some twining shrub, probably the honeysuckle : 

 " The hegge also that yede in compas, 

 And closed in all the greene herbere, 

 "With sicamour was set and eglatere, 

 Wrethen in fere." 

 and 1. 66, 



" The hegge as thicke as any castle wall, 

 That who that list without to stond or go, 

 Though he would all day prien to and fro, 

 He should not see if there were any wight 

 Within or no." 



Lonicera caprifolium, L. 



SYNDAW, G. sindau, constant dew, in Fuchs and the 

 Ortus Sanitatis sinnau, a name at present confined to the 

 sun-dew, but by Win. Turner (b. iii. p. 24) given to the 

 Lady's mantle, both these plants having formerly been 

 comprehended by Cordus and others under that of Drosera, 



Alchemilla vulgaris, L. 



SYRINGA or STRING, a name commonly given to a shrub 

 whose stems are used in Turkey for making pipe-sticks, 

 from L. Syrinx, a nymph who was changed into a reed, 

 Philadelphus coronaria, L. 



by Evelyn to the lilac, that for the same reason was called 

 Pipe tree, Syringa vulgaris, L. 



TANG, O.N. pang, Da. tang, Fris. mar-tag, a word that 

 corresponds to Da. tag, A.S. ficece, thatch, from sea-weed 

 having formerly been used to cover houses, instead of 

 straw. The word has been adopted from one of the north- 

 ern languages, and refers to a time earlier than the cultiva- 

 tion of cereal grains in high latitudes. Fucus nodosus, L. 



TANGLE, seemingly an attempted explanation of Tang, 

 as if it meant entangling, Laminaria digitata, Ag. 



TANSY, Fr. athanasie, now contracted to tanacee and 

 tanaisie, M.Lat. athanasia, the name under which it was 



