GLOSSARY. 



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Gyelaf-e — ccwt. 



*' curialis, the herb mercury, D.," nnd so 

 Gl. Harl. 978, yet all the gnaphaliums 

 have very lasting blooms, retaining their 

 colour when dry ; the G. margaritaceum 

 is specially our modern Everlasting, and 

 found " near Bocking, on the banks of 

 " the Rhymney, in Wire forest, and near 

 " Lichfield." Skinner also, Gnaphalium 

 Americanum, which is a misnomer by 

 Ray. The genus is in Dausk, Evigheds- 

 blomster. 



Cjopyeapn, neut., gen. -ey, polypody, poli/- 

 poditim vuJgare. Hb. Ixxxvi., where it 

 = Radiolus ; " Alii filicinam dicunt, 

 " similis est filici, qum fere in lapidetis 

 " nascitur vel in parietinis, habens in 

 " foliis singulis binos ordines puncto- 

 " rum aureormn," Lat. In MS. Bodley, 

 130, a fern, as polypodium is drawn and 

 a Gloss, in a hand of the 12th century 

 gives "wilde brake." "Felix (read 

 " Filix) queirciua poUipodium . i . ewer- 

 " wan," Gl. M. ">e iii.d is ouerfern, 

 " and t-at groys on walles," MS. Bodley, 

 536. " Polypodyn . i . ouerferne 't it 

 " grewitj on okys \>is is lest," id. " Poly- 

 " podium murale, euerfern," MS. Raw- 

 linson, c. 506. To the entry, " Polypo- 

 " dium arborale, pollipodie ; PoUipodium 

 " murale, euerferne," MS. Harl. 3388, has 

 been added a cross, so as to invert the in- 

 terpretations. " Polypodium rubeas ma- 

 " culas habet et uocatur filix quercina . 

 " i . euerferne," id. " ffilex quercina pol- 

 *' lopodium, euerferne idem (sunt)," id. 

 " Filix a[r]boratica, ejojijreapn," Gl. 

 Somn. p. 64 a, 14. Culpeper, under 

 polypody of the oak, describes at length 

 and cleverly, pol. vulg. (H.), and his 

 mention is one link in a long medicinal 

 tradition. "And why, I pray, must 

 " polypodium of the oak only be used, 

 " gentle college of physicians ? Can 

 " you give me but a glimpse of reason 

 *' for it ? It is only because it is 

 " dearest." Culpeper. Polypodium vul- 

 gare is "very frequent on the tops of 



ej-op]-ea]in— cont. 



" walls, old thatched roofs, shady banks 

 " and the mossy trunks of rotten trees." 

 (Sir J. E. Smith.) Its fructification 

 forms a double row of golden spots on 

 each frondlet. See also his allusion to 

 tradition in English Botany, 1 149. The 

 older names were, "polypodium quer- 

 " cinum ; filix arborum ; filicula ; herba 

 " radioli." (Nemnich.) Italian, felce- 

 quercina. The figure in MS. V. " would 

 " do very well for plantago lanceolata, 

 " (H.), it is not a fern at all." The 

 gender neuter, Boet. p. 48, 1. 31 ; Lb. 

 L Ivi. 



ehheolo>e, heahheolo)'e, gen. -an, fem. ? 

 elecampane, inula heleninm; from eh, 

 horse, equus, = heah, horse, "ttttos. "Ele- 

 " campana ys an erbe \>at som men 

 " callej> horshele, he beryth grene levis 

 " and longe stalkys and berith yelowe 

 " fioures." Gl. Sloane, 5, fol. 22 c ; so 

 Gl. Bodley, 178. Lb. I. xxxii. 2 ; L i. 

 5, etc. 



eicpa, latter, comp. adj. Lb. II. i. 1, re- 

 lated to elcian, be late ; Clcung, late- 

 7iess ; elcop, later, adverb. 



elehrpe, gen. -an, lupin, the cultivated 

 sort of course, lupinut) albus; so trans- 

 lated, Hb. cii. 3. Given for dian-hoea, 

 Lb. III. xxii. " Electrum multos habet 

 " stipites folia virid[i]a et fiores cro- 

 " ceos," Gl. Harl. 3388. " Syluestres 

 '• lupini Candida habent folia. Sativi 

 " foliis non adeo albicant," Dorsten. 

 " Lypinus . i . lyponys, ]>m erbe has 

 " leuys lyke to t^e v. levyd grass, bote 

 " }>e erbe fore the more party has v. 

 " leues and a whyt floure, etc.," MS. 

 Bodley, 536. " Clehtpe, maura," MS. 

 in Somner. "Walupia, electre," GL 

 Dun. 



elhygb, strange thought, distraction. Lb. 

 n. xlvi. ?>ysb is found fem. neut. 



elm, masc, gen -ef, elm, ulmus campestris; 

 perhaps also u. sativa. Gen. elmef, Lbv 

 I. vi. 8, therefore like old Dansk, Almr, 

 elm, masc. 



