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petro-seli-num, rock-apium, rock-bee-plant of Selinus. Carraway, 

 also care-away, is the Carum carui, or Sem. Car. carui of the drug- 

 gists' drawers ; in Arabic Jcarawaia. Purslaine is porcellana, Italian 

 once more. Turpentine is terebinthine, properly the gum of the^z's- 

 iacia terebintlius. To these add the service-tree, which is intended 

 for sorhus-tree, now classed as a species of pyrus {p. torminalis), but 

 placed by Linnseus, along witb the mountain-ash and rowan-tree, in a 

 genus sorhus: — also the Judas-tree, which means arbre de Judee, tree 

 of Judea. (The Latin translation of Bacon's Essays, art. Gardens, 

 has for " gilliflowers " cariophyllatoi.) A rich Malaga wine, taking 

 its name from the brand of one Pedro Ximeues, is commonly Angli- 

 cised into Peter-sa-mee-ne ; which our sailors take a further liberty 

 with and call Peter-see-me. 



Again : nutmeg is the Old French noix muguette, in modern French 

 noix miiscade, {Muguette was previously musquette, from muscus, 

 sweet, whence ^also music.) — A powder used in the manufacture of 

 dyes is vulgarly called cudbear. Its real form is Cuthbert, the name, 

 perhaps, of the first "patentee." — Hagle-wood, an ingredient in the 

 composition of incense, is from agila,a, Malayan word having nothing 

 ornithological in it, and aod, a syllable from the Arabic. — The lign- 

 aloes or aloes-wood of the druggists and cabinet-makers, is not a 

 product of the aloe, but the fibre of the agallochuin, to which term 

 corrupted the first expression is due. — A corrupt pronunciation of 

 ambergris, grey amber, is common. The fine Persian word lilac like- 

 wise sufiers, in vulgar English, Auglicisation in both its syllables, li 

 becoming lay, and lac, loch. 



(Quinine (in the mouths of the uneducated sometimes Queen Ann) 

 is kin-lcina (whence cinchona), i. e. the native Peruvian name kina- 

 Icina; and perclia is properly pertsha, Malayan for the tree which 

 yields the gutta or gum. 



fhejleur de lis or lys of France used some years ago to be flower 

 de luce, or even Leivis, in English, from supposed allusion in the 

 words to Louis, the name of so many of the Kings of France. {Lis 

 is properly lils, and this from lilium. Thus in Shakspeare — 



" Lilies of all kinds, 



" The flowei" de luce being one." 



Louis is C/ou/s, which is a modification of Clilotioig, people's defence.) 

 2. Next let us notice the names of some of our fruits. The Per- 

 sian for orange is, stated in the vocabularies to be narenz ; and the 



