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39. 16. “Andreas the Herborist writeth that the root of the 
Langdebeefe tyed or bounde to the diseased place, swageth the 
ache of the veynes (called Varix) being to muche opened or en- 
larged and fylled with grosse blood.”—Lyte’s Dodoens, 1578, p. 
568. See also Gerard’s Herbal, 1633. 
39. 17. “Leek.” A remnant of A.S. forleac, from Lat. porrum and 
leac=a plant, Ger. dauch. 
39. 19. ‘‘ Longwort,” called in Lyte’s Dodoens, p. 125, Sage of 
Jerusalem, ‘‘ whiche herbe hath no particular vse in Physicke, but 
it is much vsed in Meates and Salades with egges, as is also Cows- 
lippes and Prymeroses, whervnto in temperature it is much like.” 
See also Gerard’s Herbal, 1633, where it is called ‘‘Cowslips of 
Jerusalem.” 
39. 20. ‘‘ Liuerwort,” so called from the liver shape of the 
thallus, and its supposed effects in disease of the liver. O. L. Ger. 
Steenleuerwuyt, According to Lyte’s Dodoens, p. 59, “‘a soueraigne 
medicine against the heate and inflammation of the Lyuer, and all 
hoate Feuers or Agues.” Anemone Hepatica, Linn. 
39. 21. ‘‘ Marigolds are hote and dry, an herbe well knowen and 
as vsual in the kitchin as in the hal: the nature whereof is to open 
at the Sunne rising, and to close vp at the Sunne setting. It hath 
one good propertie and very profitable for Students, that is by the 
vse thereof the sight is sharpened. And againe the water distilled 
of Marigolds when it flowreth, doth help the rednesse and inflam- 
mation of the eyes if it be dropped into them, or if a linnen cloth 
wet in the water be laid upon them. Also the powder of Marigolds 
dried, being put into the hollownesse of the teeth, easeth toothach. 
And the juice of the herbe mingled with a little salt, and rubbed 
often times vpon Warts, at length weareth them away.”—Cogan’s 
Haven of Health, ch. 63. Called in the Grete Herbal Mary Gowles, 
a name that seems to have originated in the A.S. mersc-mear-gealla 
=marsh-horse-gowl, the marsh marigold, or caltha, transferred to 
the exotic plant of our gardens and misunderstood as JZary Gold. 
It is often mentioned as Go/d simply by our older poets : 
“That she sprunge up out of the molde 
Into a floure was named go/de.””—Gower, ed. 1554, 
f. 120. “The yellow marigold, the sunne’s own flower,” says 
Heywood in Marriage Triumphe, and “so called,” says Hyll (Art 
of Gard. ch. xxx.), “for that after the rising of the sun unto noon, 
this flower openeth larger and larger; but after the noontime unto 
the setting of the sun the flower closeth more and more, so that 
after the setting thereof it is wholly shut up.” 
“The marigold observes the sun, 
More than my subjects me have done.”—K. Charles I. 
39. 22. ‘ Mercurie.” ~-A name rather vaguely applied in old 
works, probably the ‘Good Henry, Chenopodium Bonus Henricus.” 
Called also ‘‘ Allgood,” Dutch algoede, Ger. aligut, from Lat. do/a 
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