206 AsTER History; MAcer 
Elna, 1489, is probably a Magna Graecian idiom ; as suggested 
by Macer’s manner of reference,—speaking of Zula Helenium; 
Enula, quam Graecus Elnam vocat Eleniumque 
Dicitur a medicis, est forma cognitis cunctis ; 
2. é., “‘Enula, which a Magna Graecian calls Elna * and which by 
the physicians [using the Attic Greek learned from books | is called 
elenium—Enula is of form familiar to every one.” 
Lolium, 2015, not known to the Greek dictionaries ; Macer 
probably derived it from the speech of Magna Graecia. 
Frumentis nocuam Lolium Graecus vocat herbam, 
Quam nostri dicunt vulgari more Nigellam ; 
“By the name Lolium the Grecian calls that noxious herb 
among grain which our Romans in their common speech call 
Nigella, 2. ¢., the dark seed in the wheat. Lolium, so named by 
Plautus, Vergil and Pliny, might have been thought a Latin root 
were it not for Macer, It has given rise since to Ger. /o/ch as 
well as its genus-name Lolium L. 
Barrocus, 1642; for balm ; apparently Magna Graecian. See 
Pp 2rt. 
Strignum, 1918, Macer’s form for the Greek Strychnos ( of 
Dioscorides), may have been a Magna Graecian variant ;+ (name of 
Solanum nigrum 1. and sometimes of Atropa Belladonna L.). 
Strucion, 907, may have been a Magna Graecian variant for 
Struthion, still more often in his time varied into Ostrutium (for 
Imperatoria Ostrutium L.). 
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* Probably not from this Elna but from the more widely used standard form of the 
word, Helenium, came its mediaeval French names Alne and Augne. I find that the two 
latter occur, cited as equivalents for ‘* Enula campana,’’ in an old French glossary ° 
plant names, “ Les noms de medicinel.’’ This glossary forms part of a codex at Tone 
the Marcelline Botanicum, which has a figure labelled stiymos, in a gth centuty 
but probably copying (accurately ?) an earlier original. 
