240 POPULAR NAMES 



TURK'S CAP, in Parkinson's Paradisus, the tulip, a 

 translation of its Oriental name. See TULIP. 



TURNIP, L. terrcB napus, Brassica Eapa, L. 



TURNSOLE or TORNSOLE, a name given in some old 

 works to the wartwort, from its being supposed to turn its 

 flowers towards the sun, Fr. tournesol, Gr. rjXtorpoTriov, 

 Euphorbia helioscopia, L. 



TUSSACK-GRASS, from its growing in thick tufts or 

 tussocks, Aira csespitosa, L. 



TUTSAN, m old works TUTSAYNE, Fr. toute-saine, all- 

 wholesome, a word that Gerarde (p. 435), Nemnich, and 

 others derive from its " healing all." Thus Lobel tells us 

 (Kruydtb. pt. i. p. 768), that " it is called by the common 

 people in France Toute same, because, like the Panacea, it 

 cures all sicknesses and diseases." This idea has probably 

 been suggested by its M. Lat. name Androscemum, Gr. of 

 Dioscorides (iii. 172) avSpoo-cupov, of av&pos, man's, and 

 alfjui, blood, a name given to it in reference either to the 

 claret colour of the juice of its ripe capsule ; or the blood- 

 stain left on the fingers after rubbing the flower, as Fuchs 

 explains it ; or more probably to an unguent made from 

 this and a closely-allied species, of which Gerarde says 

 (p. 433) : " The leves, floures, and seeds stamped, and put 

 into a glasse with oile olive, and set in the sunne for 

 certain weekes, doth make an oile of the colour of blood, 

 which is a most pretious remedy for deep wounds, and 

 those that are thorow the body." 



Hypericum Androssemum, L. 



TWAT-BLADE, from its two root-leaves, 



Listera ovata, L. 



TWICE-WRITHEN, L. bistorta, Polygonum Bistorta, L. 



TWIG-RUSH, from its tough, twiggy, branching growth, 



Cladium Mariscus, L. 



TWITCH, see QUITCH-GRASS. 



TWOPENCE, see HERB TWOPENCE. 



