234 POPULAR NAMES 



THORN, A.S. porn, Go. fiaurnus, and, like thistle, the 

 same word in all the kindred languages, and used with it 

 alliteratively, extending to the Slavonian and Celtic dialects 

 also, related perhaps to Gr. ropem, hore, L. terebro, Skr. 

 tri, pass through, Boh. trn, Pol. tarn, Wei. draen, etc., 

 a word of unknown derivation. 



BLACK-, the sloe, Prunus spinosa, L. 



BUCK-, Rhamnus catharticus, L. 



HAW-, Cratasgus oxyacantha, L. 



SALLOW-, or WILLOW-, 



Hippophae rhamnoides, L. 



,, WAY-, Rhamnus catharticus, L. 



WHITE-, Cratsegus oxyacantha, L. 



THORN-APPLE, a plant with a thorny fruit, 



Datura Stramonium, L. 



THORN-BROOM, the furze, Ulex europseus, L. 



THOROW-WAX, or THROW-WAX, a name given to the 

 plant by Turner, because, as he says, " the stalke waxeth 

 throw the leaves," Bupleurtim rotundifolium, L. 



THREE-FACES-UNDER-A-HOOD, the pansy, 



Viola tricolor, L. 



THRIFT, the passive participle of threave or thrive, press 

 close together, and meaning the "clustered" pink, so called 

 from its growing in dense tufts, Armeria vulgaris, W. 



THROAT- WORT, G. halswurz, the Canterbury bell, from 

 being supposed, from its throat-like corolla, to be a cure 

 for sore throats, Campanula Trachelium, L. 



THRUM-WORT, from thrum, a warp-end of a weaver's 

 web, as in the Teesdale proverb, " He's nae good weaver 

 that leaves lang thrums," a word used by Lyte in describ- 

 ing the reed-mace, the head of which he says (b. iv. c. 53), 

 " seemeth to be nothing els but a throm of gray wool, or 

 flockes, thicke set and thronge togither." The plant has 

 its name from its long tassel-like panicles of red flowers. 

 Amaranthus caudatus, L. 



