OF BRITISH PLANTS. 251 



WILLOW-HERB, in W. Coles WILLOW-WEED, from its 

 willow-like leaves, Epilobium, L. 



SPIKED-, Lythram Salicaria, L. 



WILLOW-THORN, a thorny shrub with the habit of a 

 willow, Hippophae rhamnoides, L. 



WILLOW-WORT, in Sylvester's Du Bartas, p. 79, the loose- 

 strife, 



" So willow-wort makes wonted hate shake hands." 



Lysimachia vulgaris, L. 



WIND-FLOWER, from Gr. avepavr}, see ANEMONY, 



Anemone, L. 



WIND-ROSE, Ecemeria hybrida, DC. 



WINDLE-STRAW, A.S. wmdel-streow , from windan, twist, 

 and streow, straw, a grass whose halms are used for platting, 



Agrostis Spica venti, L. 

 and Cynosurus cristatus, L. 



WIN-BERRY, or WIM BERRY, probably a corruption of 

 whin-berry rather than of wine and berry, although a fer- 

 mented liquor was formerly made from this fruit, as it is in 

 Russia to the present day, the whortleberry, 



Vaccinium Myrtillus, L. 



WINE-BERRY, in the Northern counties, the red-currant, 



Ribes rubrum, L. 



WINTER ACONITE, a plant allied to the aconites, and 

 blowing at midwinter, Eranthis hyemalis, DC. 



WINTER CHERRY, from its red cherry-like berry ripening 

 against the winter, Physalis Alkekengi, L. 



WINTER CRESS, Barbarea praecox, RB. 



WINTER-GREEN, a name adopted by Turner from the 

 German winter-griin, of the Ortus Sanitatis (c. 316). The 

 Danish winter-grunt means the ivy, and it is probable that 

 this latter, the ivy, is the rightful claimant of the name, as 

 being so conspicuously green when the trees are most of 

 them bare of leaf. Pyrola, L. 



