A MEDICO-BOTANICAL GLOSSARY. 



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Bardana', farfara, ungula equina uel 

 ungula caballina [idem], angl, feld- 

 houe. [Respice in barba elexis 

 et in raucia, et in illafucos'^.] 

 5 Barba aaron % iarus, basga idem, angl. 

 cokkowespitte. 



Baucia*, pastinaca agrestis idem, su- 

 mitur tamen quandoque pro domes- 

 tica uel ortholana, anglice widles- 

 ^o kirwit. 



[Barba leporis, rosa passa idem.] 



Betonica uel betonia aut uetonica ^, 



cestros uel cestrum idem. gall. be- 

 toine, anglice betonike. 



Item cistronidum, ut in Alex. de 15 

 splenis, idem. Habet folia ad mo- 

 dum urtice sed uiridiora sed non 

 pungencia et florem indum et boni 

 odoris [est ualde]. 

 Been" est album et aliud rubeum. 20 



Berula'' similis est narstucio aquatico 

 sed acu[s]tiora habet folia, valet ad 

 scrofulas maturandas. [gall. berles] 

 anglice bilus^ 



5. rosga. 6. cokkouwespitte. 9, 

 15. cestronidum. 16. splene. 



ribeum. 24. biller. 



ortolana. wyldeschirewit. 13. betoyne. 14. betonek. 

 17. et non. 18. pungentia. 20. aliud album. 



* Fuchs, H. S. p. 88, 'Officince lappam majorem, vulgus bardanam vocat.' Bart. p. 20, 

 ' Farfara, i. ungula cabaUina : ' ib. p. 43, ' Ungula cahallina campestris i. clote.' Plautus, Poenulus, 

 ii. 32, ' eo prcBsternebant foUa farferi.^ Plin. Hist. Nat. xxiv. 15, ' chamgeleucen apud nos farfarum 

 (var. farranum) sive farfugium vocant, nascitur secundum fluvios.' cf. E.P.N. p. 16, ' Caballopodia, 

 vel ungula caballi, coltgrceig.' Feldhoue, see post, Pes pulli. There seems to be some confusion 

 between Burdock and Coltsfoot. * App. Ilafeos. ^ dpov, Diosc. ii. 197. Bart. 



p. 12, 'Barba aaron, iarus idem, pes vituli, zekesterse.' App. ' Aronis vel aron, i. yaros.' 

 Cuckoospit, cuckoopint, cuckoopintle, wake robin, and zekesterse seem all of them to be identical 

 in meaning and in derivation. * Bart. p. 12, ' Baucia, i. pastinaca agrestis, sumitur 



quandoque pro domestica. ' ih. ' Baucea, skinvhii.^ id. p. 3.^, ' Pastinaca, an. skirwhite.' App. 

 'Baucia id est pastinaca domestica.' Gerarde, p. 1026, ' Sisariim . . . in English Skirret and 

 Skir-wort.' The plant appears to be Sium, Water-parsnep, which Withering calls skerrets. 



* Betony, Plin. Hist. Nat. xxv. 8, ' Vettonica dicitur in Gallia, in Italia autem serratula, a Grsecla 

 cestron.' Kiarpov, Diosc. iv. i. ^ Bart. p. 12, ' Been sunt grana qute piper album vocamus.' 

 App. ^Been rub. radix quae in India invenitur. Been album in yEgypto reperitur.' Serapion (Lyons 

 1525), de simplicibus ex plantis, c. 223. "^ Bart. p. 13, ' Berula, fabaria idem, levick.' 

 i. e. Brooklime. Marcellus Empiricus, c. 36, 'adpones herbam quK in aqu^e iugis decursu nascitur, 

 quam Latine berulam, Grsece cardaminen vocant.' Gerarde, p. 621, ' Water Pimpemell is called 

 Anagallis aquatica, of most Becabunga . . . in French Berle, whereupon some do call it Berula.' 



* Biller, or Bell-rags, (Britten, English Plant Names, p. 41). It is probably a Celtic name, as 

 Biller is quoted from Co. Derry, and Bertvr is the Welsh name for Cresses. cf. Joyce, Irish 

 Names of Places, 2nd series, 1875, p. 325, ' Biorar [birrer] is the word for water-cress, and it is 

 obviously derived from bior, water. In the colloquial language the middle r of this word is 

 always changed to / by a common phonetic law, and it is consequently pronounced biller.' ib. 

 ist series, p. 48. 



