272 Notes and [llustrations. 
male kinde of this herbe, and that which we doe call Lauender- 
cotten is the female, named in Latine Cypressus or Santolina. The 
setting of Lauender-co/ten within the house in floure pots must needes 
be very wholesome, for it driveth away venemous wormes, both by 
strawing, and by the sauour of it, and being drunke in wine it is a 
remedie against poyson.”’—Cogan’s Haven of Health, p. 56. 
42. 14. ‘‘ Mawdelin,” spelt also Waudlin, Mawdeleyn and Maude- 
line, appears to have derived its name similarly to Cos/mary, q.v., and 
to have been applied to the same uses. 
43. 1. “Baies,” Bays, from French daze, which is formed from 
Lat. dacca=a berry. In old writers day is used for a Jerry generally, 
as ‘‘the bayes of ivyne,” but in time the term came to be applied 
to the berries of the sweet bay, called by Virgil dauri baccas, from 
their being an article of commerce; from the berry the term was 
extended to the tree itself. 
43. 2. ‘‘ Bachelor’s Buttons.” So called, according to Johnson’s 
Gerarde, p. 472, ‘‘from their -similitude to the jagged cloathe 
buttons anciently worne in this kingdom,” but according to others 
from “a habit of country fellows to carry them in their pockets to 
divine their success with their sweethearts.” Called by Lyte 
(Dodoens, p. 421), Goldcup or Gold knoppe, and described as a 
double variety of the flower now known so well as the Butterflower, 
or Buttercup, the Fr. bouton dor. 
43. 4. “Columbine,” called Colourbine in Lincoln, Aguzlegia 
vulgaris, used for making stuffed chine. 
43. 7. ‘ Daffadowndilly, Daffodilly, Affodilly, and Daffodil, Lat. 
asphodelus, from which was formed Affodilly, the name of it in all 
the older writers, but subsequently confused with that of another 
flower, the so-called sapharoun or saffron Zily : 
‘The thyrde /ylye 3yt there ys, 
That ys called felde lylye, y wys, 
Hys levys be lyke to sapharoun, 
Men know yt therby many one.’—MS. Sloane, 1571. 
With the taste for alliteration that is shown in popular names, the 
Sapharoun-lily, upon blending with affodilly, became, by a sort of 
mutual compromise, daffadowndilly, whence our daffodilly and daffo- 
dil.’ —Dr. R. A. Prior, Popular Names of British Plants. ‘‘ Strew 
me the ground with daffadowndillies.”—Spenser, Shep. Cal. 140. 
43. 8. ‘“‘Eglantine,” a word of doubtful origin. Chaucer writes 
it eglatere and eglentere. Fr. atglantier, Prov. atglentina=wild rose. 
Diez derives it from Lat. acwleus=a prickle, through the adj. acu- 
lentus. 
43. 9. Feverfew (Pyrethrum parthenium), a genus of Compo- 
site plants, common in our gardens, and deriving its name from 
having long been employed as a popular remedy in ague and other 
fevers, and as an emmenagogue. It appears to possess stimulant 
and tonic properties. It is a perennial plant, and may attain a 
