NOTES. 89 



Sibthorp identifies Aiv6faffTis as Mercurialis annua, 

 which is an English weed, the common herb Mercury. 



1.3. Eadiola. ^ is Efor fearn. The words of Apuleiua 

 leave no doubt that this is the fern we now call Polypo- 

 dium vulgare. He says, ' Herba radiolum, quam alii fili- 

 cinam vocant, similis est filici quae in lapidibus nascitur, 

 vel in parietibus, habens in foliis singulis binos ordines 

 punctorum aureorum.' His commentator adds that the 

 Greeks call it Polypodion, and the Germans @ngel; 

 fufj, and that it grows on mossy rocks and old trees. 



1. 17. Peucena. is Cammoc. In the Breviarium 

 Bartolomsei at Pembroke College (Oxford) we find : 

 ' Camoc, Resta bovis, retinens boves in aratro.' Rest- 

 harrow is still called Cammock. 



P. 7,1. 2. Sisimbrius. 'Est quidem similis men thae, 

 sed latioribus foliis atque odoris summi.' Apul. Here 

 we see what guided the Saxon glosser to make Brook- 

 mint of it. 



1. 6. Tytymallus calatites. Dioscorides makes seven 

 sorts of Tithymallus. According to Sibthorp, they are 

 all of the genus Euphorbia, Calatites is ^aXaKT'nrjs 

 Diosc. milky ; and Lactertda is a Latin rendering of 

 "ya.\a.KTiTr)S. 



1. 14. Cucumeris siluatica. O'IKVS aypios, Momor- 

 dica Elaterium. Sibthorp. 



1. 19. Eptafilon. t is Seofan leafe. Potentilla Tor- 

 mentilla. Sibth. 



1.27. Origanum. The RadclifFe copy of Apuleius has 

 ' margeram,' written at the side in a hand of the i6th 

 century. 



P. 8, 1. 4. Lid wyrt, i. e. lift wyrt. See p. 30. 



P. 10, 1. 9. Polloten. " is Porrum nigrum. Pliny 

 xxvii. 8 says, 'Balloten alio nomine melan prasion 

 Graeci vocant.' So that Prasion has been taken for 

 7rpd(Toj>=porrum. Hence the name Ballota nigra, 

 Black horehound; 



