2D Ditht ON AI NOD ES: 
Those signed J. B. are by MR. J. BritTEN, F.L.S. 
21. 14. Cotgrave, s.v. Latsser and Houseau, has an exactly parallel 
expression: ‘‘ // a latssé ses houseaux, he hath tipped up the heeles, 
or is ready to doe it; he hath got him to his last bed; he is even 
as good as gone; he is no better then a dead man.” The Catho- 
licon Anglicum also gives ‘‘Top ouer tayle, preciprtanter: to cast 
tope ouer tayle, precipitart.” 
34. 21. Turner (Names of Herbes) says the currant tree is called 
“‘in some places of England a Raszn tree.”—J.B. 
37. 1. See also Swainson’s Weather Folklore, pp. 40-42.—J.B. 
39. 5. ‘ Beets,” although joined here with ‘“ bleets,” no doubt 
refers to the common beetroot, Beta vulgaris, Linn. Gerard had 
the ‘‘ White or Yellow Beete”’ in his garden.—J.B. 
39. 16. This is no doubt Helminthia echiordes, Linn., of which 
Parkinson (Paradisus) gives a good description and figure under 
this name, and says, ‘‘ The leaves are onely used . . . for an herbe 
for the pot among others.” Lyte’s reference is to some other plant 
which has ‘‘a purple flower.” —J.B. 
39. 20. The first portion of the note on p. 266 refers to a Crypto- 
gam called Liverwort, having nothing to do with the plant meant 
by Tusser.—J.B. 
39. 22. It is still much grown in some districts, as in Lincoln- 
shire (where it is called ‘‘ Marquerry”’), being boiled and eaten as 
spinach.—J.B. 
39. 24. The plant referred to in the quotation from the Prompt. 
Parv. is not that meant by Tusser.—J.B. 
39. 30. Lupton (Book of Notable Things, v. 89) speaks of 
“«Primroses, which some take to be Daisies.”—J.B. 
39. 40. The wild tansey is not Tusser’s plant.—J.B. 
40. 17. “Sea holie.” Eryngium maritimum, Linn. ‘ The leaves 
are good to be eaten in sallads.”—Langham’s Garden of Health. 
“The young and tender shoots are eaten of divers either raw or 
pickled.”—Parkinson, Zheatrum Botanicum, 1640, p. 988.—J.B. 
43. 4. “There are many sorts of Colombines, as well differing 
in forme as colour of the flowers, and of them both single and 
double carefully noursed up in our gardens, for the delight both of 
their forme and colours.”— Parkinson, Paradisus, 1629, p.271.—J.B. 
51. 32. Compare the expression in the Paston Letters, i. 390, 
“‘Writan in my slepyng tyme at after none, on Wytsonday.” 
56. 44. ‘‘ For Mihelmas spring,” that is, “ for fear of injuring the 
young plants, etc., at Michaelmas.” __ 
57. 3. There is no doubt Mr. Skeat is right; compare “ Centory 
must be gotten betweene our Lady dayes.”—Langham’s Garden of 
Health. The date is not uncommon in Herbals.—J.B. 
