INTRODUCTION. 



mon mage$e ' and ' Hec embroca maythe/ 

 we might begin to doubt that ' magefe ' 

 was used too vaguely for identification, 

 until we learn that Anthemis nobilis was 

 a specific for weak eyes ; that Obtalmon 

 is just o$6a\nu>v, and that embroca was 

 tpfipoxT} the embrocation or eye-wash made 

 of Camomile flowers. It is on this ground 

 that I identify ' Aristolochia smert wyrt ' 

 with our wilded A. clematitis. Its use 

 in parturition has procured it the popular 

 name of Birthwort, and Fraas testifies that 

 it is still so used by shepherds in Greece. 

 But this medicinal consideration is also 

 sometimes productive of confusion of the 

 identification, as will be noticed below at 

 the close of this Section. 



8. ECONOMIC USES more rarely. In one 

 place we have ' Tilia lind,' and in another 

 ' Tilia baste-tre.' The former gloss points 

 to the German Sinbe, the other to an 

 economic use, now known only to gar- 

 deners and packers of goods, but formerly j 

 also to the makers of shields for the war, 

 rior. Here we may also place hseg forn- I 

 hawthorn, the thorn that makes hedges. 



