PLANT NAMES ^^ 



Wych, Elm, Hazel, is sometimes supposed to be 

 from witch, because a Hazel twig is used in water- 

 divining. It is from an Anglo-Saxon word wican, 

 to bend, from its pliant branches. (Compare wicker, 

 weak, and wick of a candle. A wicket is a small 

 gate that easily turns, and a wicket in cricket was 

 at first " a small gate," being 2 feet wide by i foot 

 high.) 



Xanthoceras, from xanthos, yellow, and keras, 

 a horn, referring to the yellow horn-like nectaries. 



