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and Hierosolyma have become Jerom and Jwusalem, so hiera 

 has become yarrow. Achillsea Millefolium, L. 



YEAST-PLANT, Penicillium glaucum, Ber. 



YELLOW ARCHANGEL, see ARCHANGEL, 



Lamium Galeobdolon, Crz. 



YELLOW BIRDSNEST, in contrast to the wild carrot, that 

 was also called Birdsnest, Monotropa Hypopitys, L. 



YELLOW BUGLE, Ajuga Chamaepitys, L. 



YELLOW CRESS, Barbarea prsecox, RB. 



YELLOW LOOSESTRIFE, Lysimachia vulgaris, L. 



YELLOW OX-EYE, Chrysanthemum segetum, L. 



YELLOW PIMPERNEL, Lysimachia nernorum, L. 



YELLOW RATTLE, Rhinanthus Crista galli, L. 



YELLOW ROCKET, Barbarea vulgaris, RB. 



YELLOW-WEED, a weed or dye-plant used for dyeing 

 yellow, the term weed being here, as in green-weed, red- 

 weed, etc., not the A.S. iveod, but the Du. weed, G. waid, 

 the weld, Reseda Luteola, L. 



YELLOW-WORT, Chlora perfoliata, L. 



YEVERING BELLS, L. tintinnabulum terrce, from the re- 

 semblance of its flowers to little bells hung one above the 

 other to be struck with a hammer. Yevering is usually spelt 

 yetkering, from Scotch y ether, beat. Pyrola secunda, L. 



YEW, or YEUGH, in old authors variously spelt EWGH, 

 UGH, EWE, and U, A.S. iw, O.H.G. iwa, G. eibe, Sp. and 

 Port, iva, F. if, W. yw, from M.Lat. ivus, iva, or iua, a 

 name applied to several different plants, and of uncer- 

 tain derivation. Some of the dictionaries allege for it a 

 Celtic iw, green, but there does not appear to be any such 

 word. It seems to be an abbreviation of aiuga, a mis- 

 spelling of L. abiga, a plant mentioned by Pliny (b. xxiv. 

 ch. 20), as being the same as the Gr. x a f jLM7ri ' Tv ^> and 

 called so from its causing abortion. Under this name iua 

 we find the yew so inextricably mixed up with the ivy, 

 that, as dissimilar as are the two trees, there can be no 



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