382 WILD FLOWERS. 



BIB- WORT OK PLANTAIN, PLANTEN, WAY- 

 BREDE, WAYFRON, WAYBORN, OR WAY- 

 BRET. 



Plantago. 



Welsh, (P. major) Llyriad or Erllyriad, Sawdl Christ, Henlly- 

 dan y fordd, Llyriad mwyaf (P. tnarltima), Bara can y 

 defaid, Llys y defaid, Sampier y ddafaid, Gwerog man y 

 don. Gaelic, Geuan phadruic, Slan-lus French, Plantain. 

 German, Wegetritt, Paradies feige. Italian, Piantagine. 

 Spanish, Plantano. lllyric, Bokvica, Haskvica, Bokva-pod- 

 vonja. Arabic, Lissan-el-Hamal, L6ginet e' naga, Khanant 



LINN^EAN. NATURAL. 



Tetrandria. Plantagineos. 



Monogynia. Plantago. 



THE Rev. Mr. Talbot, as pointed out in the "Botany 

 of the Eastern Borders/' is certainly mistaken when 

 he reads the old English name of this plant as way- 

 bread, instead of way-bred ; and another writer, 

 following him, actually proposes it to the wayfarer 

 as the "staff of life." "Merrily/" he says, when 

 alluding to the pleasant old English names of our 

 wild flowers, " merrily might the traveller wend on 

 his way when there was the little speedwell to cheer 

 him, waybread to support him, gold of pleasure to 

 enrich him, traveller's joy to welcome* him/' Its 

 signification is nothing more than that of "way- 



* See " Notes and Queries," vol. vi., p. 503. 



