A MEDICO-BOTANICAL GLOSSARF, 



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Herba sanguinaria \ bursa pastoris 

 idem. g^. crisbone, a. purs[e]- 

 uu[o]rt. 



Herba Walteri habet stipitem rectum 



5 aliquantulum et diuisionem foli- 



orum per gradus diuisam [?], redo- 



letutmuscum. gall. muge deboys^. 



Herba Roberti ^ similis [similis est] 

 aquilarie*, fetet et habet stipitem 

 10 tortum et rubeum et geniculatum 



et flores et spinas ad modum acus 

 muscate minoris ^ et ualet contra 

 cancrum et fistulam. 



Herba acetosa, ascedula idem. g^. 

 15 sorele '^, anglice sourdok *. 



Herba pedicularis, staphisagria ^ 

 idem, interficit pediculos. 



Herba meretricum, meretricaria idem, 

 habet radiccm rubeum, flores et 

 folia similia lingue hircine. ^o 



Herbum '** siue, ut alii dicunt, oro- 

 bum " nascitur ut lenticula, scri- 

 tur etiam, ciiius aliud est pallidum, 

 aliud subrufum, et aliud album, 

 uires habet acres et diureticas 25 

 ualde. [Et] herbum elixum et 

 datum boues pinguescere facit ^-. 



Herpillum '^, serpillum, [timbra^' 

 idem,] pulegium montanum, g^. 



serfoilj a^. brothuurt '^ 



30 



2. tresbone. 

 dicunt. 



15. surele. sourdokke. 19. et flores. 20. consimilia. 

 29. montanum idem. 30. brotherunrt. 



21. orobum 



^ Bart. p. 38, ' Sanguinaria, bursa pastoris idem.' The plant referred to is Shepherd's Purse 

 (Capsella Bursa Pastoris) : but Sanguinaria is more properly applied to lcnot-grass (Polygonura 

 aviculare). E. P. N. p. 32, ' Pilogonus et sanguinaria, Sset is unfortredde.' ^ E. P. N. 



p. 46, ' Hastula regia, muge de bois, wuderove.' See ante, Asta regia. With regard to woodruff 

 there seems to be some difficulty. It is hard to see how it came to be called Hastula regia. 

 Perhaps the confusion may be due to the fact that the French Mnguet was applied both to wood- 

 ruff and the Lily of the Valley (Gerarde, p. 386). Both are scented, but only the latter could be 

 appropriately Called Hastula regia. In that case the reason of the name would probably be found 

 in the shape of the leaf : cf. the name gar-lic (A. S. gar, a spear). The name zvoodrujfis probably 

 a translation oiAsperula (the little rough one) : at any rate, the name woodrowell (Gerarde, p. 1 1 26), 

 suggesting Fr. roueUe, is very much later than the name ivudero/e (E. P. N. p. 1 2), which occurs in 

 a vocabulary of the tenth centnry. Nemnich gives as the Dutch name for Woodniff, Welriehnd 

 Ruuwkruid : and as rziuw is the word for rough, the inference is that the Dutch RuuwWtdd axnX 

 the English woodruff derive their name from the roughness of the plant. Herba Walteri seems to 

 recall the German name Wald-meister. ' Herb Robert. Gerarde, p. 939, ' it is called in High 

 Dutch Ruprechfs kraut . . . and thercupon it is named in Latine . . . Roherti herba.' * See 



ante, Aquilaria. * See ante, Acus Muscata. Acedula. E. P. N. p. 24, ' Accitulium, 



jaces-sure.' ^ Cotgrave, '^Mre/Zf, sorrelL' * Sour-dock. ^ aTa<ph a-ypia, 



Diosc. iv. 153. *" Ervum. ^^ opoPos, Diosc. ii.131. '^ Diosc. ii. 131, /SoCs S^ 



Xnraivei u HpcuOeir] (vulgo XmaLVfi i<p6bi irapaTiOefxivoi). " epnvWos, Diosc iii. 40. 



" evnPpa, Diosc. iii. 39. " E. P. N. p. 42, ' Pollegia, bro5er-^v)'rt, hcel-wyrt, dweorges 



drostle.' Gerarde, Supplement, ' Brotherwort Puliol Mountain,' 



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