LATIN AND ENGLISH PLANT NAMES 



The flower names marked * have originated with my children and are in common 

 use in our garden. (Plant names frequently encountered in books, trade catalogues, 

 etc., with their popular or "English" equivalents.) 



Abronia umbellata— Sand Verbena. 

 Abutilon— Flowering Maple. 

 Acaena microphylla — New Zealand Burr. 

 Acanthus — Bear's-breech. 

 Acantholimon venustum — Prickly Thrift. 

 Acer pennsylvanicum — Moosewood, Stripe-bark Maple. 

 " pseudoplantanus — Sycamore Maple. 

 " rubrum — Swamp Maple, Soft Maple. 

 " saccharinum — Silver or White Maple. 

 " saccharum — Sugar Maple, Rock Maple. 

 Achillea Ageratum — Sweet Maudlin. 



" Eupatorium or fillipendulina — Fern-leaved Yarrow, Noble Yarrow. 

 " Millefolium — Milfoil, Old-man's Pepper, Nose-bleed, Sanguinary, Carpen- 

 ter's Grass. 

 " Ptarmica — Sneezewort, White Tansy, Bastard Pellitory, Seven-years-love. 

 " sericea — Compact Milfoil. 

 *' tomentosa — Downy Milfoil. 

 Aconitum autumnale — Autumn Monkshood. 



" Lycoctonum — Yellow Wolfsbane, Yellow Helmet-flower. 

 " Napellus — Common Monkshood, Wolfsbane, Friar's-cowl, Blue Rocket, 

 Pharaoh's Chariot. 

 Acorus Calamus — Sweet Flag, Myrtle-grass, Cinnamon Sedge. 



Actaea spicata — Herb Christopher, Baneberry, Necklace-weed, White Beads, White 

 Grapewort, Rattlesnake-weed. 

 " rubra — Red Baneberry, Coral and Pearl, Red Cohosh, Poison-berry, Red- 



berry-Snakeroot. 

 Actinidia arguta — Silver Vine. 

 Adenophora — Gland Bellflower. 

 Adlumia cirrhosa — Alleghany Vine, Mountain Fringe, Fairy Creeper, Climbing 



Fumatory. 

 Adonis autumnalis — Red Camomile, Rosaruby. 



" vernalis — Spring Adonis, Bird's Eye, Pheasant's Eye, Ox-eye, Flos Adonis. 

 Aegopodium Podograria — Goutweed, Soapsuds, Masterwort, Jack-jump-a-bout, 



Ash-weed, Herb Gerald. 

 Aethionema cordifolium— Lebanon Candytuft. 



" grandiflorum — Persian Candytuft. 



Agathaea coelestis — Blue Daisy. 

 Ageratum mexicanum— Floss-flower. 

 Agrostemma Coronaria — Mullein Pink, Rose-of-Heaven, Rose Campion, Crown-of 



the-field, Old-maid's-Pink, Popille. See Lychnis coronaria. 

 Ajuga reptans — Creeping Bugle, Middle-consound, Dead-men's-elbows, Carpenter's- 



Herb. 

 Alchemilla — Lady's Mantle, Great-Sanicle, Breakstone. 

 Akebia quinata — Tricorne Vine.* 



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