NOTES. 89 



Sibthorp identifies AivS^coffTis as Mercurialis annua, 

 which is an English weed, the common herb Mercury. 



1.3. Badiola. f is Efor fearn. The words of Apuleius 

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

 diura 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 (Sngel; 

 fu§, and that it grows on mossy rocks and old trees, 



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

 Bartolomsei at Pembroke College (Oxford) we find : — 

 ' Caiuoc, Eesta bovis, retinens boves in aratro.' Rest- 

 harrow is still called Cammock. 



P. 7,1. 2. Sisimhrius. 'Est quidem similis menthae, 

 sed latioribus foliis atque odoris summi.' Apul. Here 

 we see what guided the Saxon glosser to make Bi'ook- 

 mint of it. 



1. 6. Tytymallus calafites. Dioscorides makes seven 

 sorts of Tithymallus. According to Sibthorp, they are 

 all of the genus Euphorhla. Calatites is 'yakaKTiTrjs 

 Diosc. milky ; and Lacterida is a Latin rendering of 

 •yoKaKTiT-qs. 



1. 14. Cuciimeris silicatlca. clicv^ dypios, Momor- 

 dica Elaterium. Sibthorp, 



1. 19, Eptafilon. j5 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, li'5 wyrt. See p, 30, 



P. 10, 1. 9, Polloten. 'p is Porrum nigrum. Pliny 

 xxvii, 8 says, 'Balloten alio nomine melan prasion 

 Graeci vocant,' So that Prasion has been taken for 

 7r/)d(roi/ = porrum. Hence the name Ballota nigra, 

 Black horehound. 



