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THYME, Gr. 6vpo<s, from Ova*, fumigate, and identical 

 with Ij.fumus, Skr. d/tuma, smoke, from dhu, agitate, the 

 name of some odoriferous plant or shrub used in sacrifices, 

 at present appropriated to a genus of labiate plants, and 

 more particularly to the hill-thyme, 



Thymus Serpyllum, L. 



TILLET, in Ph. Holland's Pliny, the till or lime tree. 



TILLS, abbreviated from lentils. " The country people," 

 says Parkinson (Th. Bot. p. 1068), " sow it in the fields 

 for their cattle's food, and call it Tills, leaving out the 

 Lent, as thinking that word agreeth not with the matter. 

 Ita sus JWinervam." Ervum Lens, L. 



TIMOTHY-GRASS, from its having been brought from 

 New York by a Mr. Timothy Hanson, and introduced by 

 him into Carolina, and under that name first recommended 

 to the attention of English agriculturists, 



Phleum pratense, L. 



TINE-TARE, a tare that tines, or encloses and imprisons 

 other plants, Vicia hirsuta, Koch, 



and in Linn. Soc. Journ. vol. v. Lathyrus tuberosus, L. 



TITHYMALL, a name of the spurge tribe in old writers, 

 L. tithymalus, Euphorbia, L. 



TOAD-FLAX, from its narrow, linear, flax-like leaves, 

 and its having been described by Dodoens, as " Herba 

 assimilis cum Bubonio facultatis," and Bubonio having 

 been mistaken for bufonio, from bufo, a toad ; as it is 

 in the Ortus Sanitatis, ch. 431, where the author, speak- 

 ing of the Bubonium, says, " dieses kraut wird von etlichen 

 genennet bubonium, das ist kroten-kr&ut ; wann bubo heisset 

 ein krot. Inde bubonium." Linaria vulgaris, L. 



BASTARD-, from its leaves resembling those of the 

 preceding plant, Thesium linophyllum, L. 



TOAD-PIPE, from its straight fistulous stalks, and growth 

 in damp places where toads haunt, and croak, and pipe to 

 one another, Equisetum limosum, L. 



