248 POPULAR NAMES 



s, as meaning " Sip ere ye see us," " help your- 

 self to the tankard, without waiting to be asked," 



Euphorbia Cyparissias, L. 

 WELD, WOULD, or WOOLD, Sp. gualda, 



Keseda Luteola, L. 



WELSH ONION, G. wdlsch, foreign, being a Siberian 

 species, and introduced into England from Germany, 



Allium fistulosum, L. 

 WELSH POPPY, from its growing in Wales, 



Meconopsis cambrica, DC. 

 WHARRE, a crab, W. ckwenv, austere, bitter, 



Pyrus Malus, L. 



WHEAT, a term used in the first place with the meaning 

 of white, wheat being, in contrast to rye, and black oats, 

 and the black barley of Northern Asia, a white grain, A.S. 

 hwcete, Go. hvaiteis, O.K. hveiti, O.H.G. hveizi, Lith. kivetys, 

 Skr. s'veta, white, the initial sv answering, as in other cases, 

 to a German hu, and Lith. few, Triticum, L. 



BUCK-, G. buchwaitzen, 



Polygonum Fagopyrum, L. 

 Cow-, see under COW-WHEAT. 

 WHIN, from Fr. guinda or guindoula, M.Lat. guindolum, 

 a word that generally means a kind of cherry, but in 

 Languedoc is applied to the jujube, L. ziziphus, a name 

 extended to other thorny and prickly shrubs (see HIP), the 

 furze bush, Ulex europseus, L. 



PETTY-, Ononis arvensis, L. 



WHIN-BERRY, or WIMBERRY, the bilberry, from its 

 growing on whins or heaths, 



Vaccinium Myrtillus, L. 



WHIP-TONGUE, from children using its leaves in play to 

 draw blood from their tongues, Galium Mollugo, L. 



WHITE BEAM-TREE, a pleonasm, as A.S. beam means 

 simply a tree. It is called White Beam from the white 

 down on the young shoots and under surface of the leaves ; 



