134 WILD FLOWERS. 



SANICLE. 



Samcula. 



Welsh, Cltist yr arth, Olcheuraid or Golchwraidd. French, 

 Sanicle. German, Sainckel. Dutch and Danish, Sanikel. 

 Polish, Zankiel. Italian, Sanicola. Spanish and Por- 

 tuguese, Sauicula. 



NATURAL. 



Pentandria. Umbelliferce. 



Digynia. Desciscentes. 



" HE needs neither physician nor surgeon who hath 

 bugle and sanicle/' says the old French proverb ; 

 and in accordance with the idea is the name borne 

 by the plant in so many European languages, and 

 which refers to its healing properties, being traceable 

 to the Latin verb sano (sanare, to heal) ; because, as 

 the old herbalist declares, the plant will "make 

 hole and sound all inward wounds and outward 

 hurts." In fact so very sanative is it, that even the 

 herbalists who are most eloquent, or most verbose, in 

 descanting on the virtues of their various potential 

 herbs, scarcely do more than give the above generali- 

 sation of this ; just as following the principle that, 

 " good wine needs no bush " it is not the greatest 

 men whose names are most frequently blazoned 

 forth by their contemporaries. We are, therefore, 

 compelled without sharing in the convinced spirit 



