254 POPULAR NAMES 



WOOD LILY, the lily of the valley, 



Convallaria majalis, L. 



WOOD NIGHTSHADE, the bittersweet, 



Solanum Dulcamara, L. 



WOOD NUT, Corylus Avellana, L. 



WOOD PEA, from its small pea-like tubers, and its usually 

 growing in woods, Vicia Orobus, DC. 



WOOD REED, in distinction from the pool-reed, 



Calamagrostis epigeios, L. 



WOOD-ROOF, -ROPE, -ROW, -ROWEL, or -RUFF, and agree- 

 ably to an old distich : 



" Double IT, double 0, double D, E, 



E, 0, double TJ, double F, E," 



WOODDEROWFFE, A.S. wude-rofe, from Fr. roue, a wheel, 

 and its dim. rouelle, a little wheel or rowel, the leaves 

 being set upon the stem in verticils that resemble the large 

 rowels of ancient spurs. This is one among several other 

 words that we find to have been adopted into Anglo-Saxon 

 from the French, an occurrence a good deal more frequent 

 than philologists seem to be aware, who, looking upon the 

 former as a pure Germanic language, would trace its 

 vocabulary too exclusively to native roots. 



Asperula odorata, L. 



WOOD RUSH, or -GRASS, Luzula sylvatica, DC. 



WOOD SAGE, Teucrium Scorodonia, L. 



WOOD SORREL, or -SowR, Oxalis Acetosella, L. 



WOOD SPURGE, Euphorbia amygdaloides, L. 



WOOD VETCH, Vicia Orobus, DC. 



WOOD VINE, Bryonia dioica, L. 



WOOD-WAXEN, A.S. wudu-weaxe, which would seem to 

 mean "wood-grown," a word very inapplicable to a plant 

 that is always found in open meadows. It is most pro- 

 bably a corruption of some German name meaning " woad- 

 plant," waud-gewdchse. It is called in Sloane MS. 1571, 3, 

 Wodewex, Genista tinctoria, L. 



