236 POPULAR NAMES 



TOAD-STOOL, any of the unwholesome fungi, from a 

 popular belief that toads sit on them. So Spenser, in 

 Sheph. Cal. Dec. 1. 69 : 



" The griesly todestool grown there m ought I see, 

 And loathed paddocks lording on the same." 



Boletus, Agaricus, etc. 



TOBACCO, a name of the plant that was adopted by the 

 Spaniards from the Indians of Cuba, and properly the name 

 of the pipe in which it was smoked, the weed itself having 

 been called Cohiba, Nicotiana Tabacum, L. 



TOLMENEER, TOLMEINER, or CoLMENiER, a name given 

 by the herbalists to a variety of the Sweet William. It is 

 spelt by Lyte (b. ii. ch. 7), in three syllables Tol-me-neer, 

 as though it meant " Toll or entice me near," and Colme- 

 nier might in the same way be explained as "Cull me 

 near." It is most likely a corruption of D'Almagne, or 

 D'Allemagne, as being a pink of Germany. 



Dianthus barbatus, L. 



TOMATO, its American-Indian name, Sp. tomate, 



Solanum Lycopersicum, L. 



TOOTH-CRESS, or TOOTH-VIOLET, from the tooth-like scales 

 of the root, Dentaria bulbifera, L. 



TOOTHWORT, from the tooth-like scales of the root-stock, 

 and base of the stem, Lathrsea Squamaria, L. 



TORCH, G. dartsch, the mullein, called so, because, 

 according to Parkinson (Th. Bot. p. 62), and W. Coles 

 (ch. 112), " the elder age used the stalks dipped in suet 

 to burn, whether at funerals or otherwise." See HIGTAPER. 



Verbascum Thapsus, L. 



TORMBNTIL, Off. L. tormentitta, from the use of the root 

 in cases of dysentery, L. tormina, or, as Lobel says, from 

 its relieving the pain of toothache, 



Potentilla Tormentilla, Sibt. 



TOUCH-ME-NOT, from the sudden bursting of its seed- 

 pods, upon being touched ; a phrase that was familiar from 



