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temptuous " phu" could be more justly applied. A more 

 agreeable name for the plant is all-heal, the leaves being- 

 applied by the country folk to fresh wounds; and an old 

 name, now rarely found, but to be met with in Chaucer 

 and others of the older writers, is Setwall or Setewall, a 

 name supposed to be a corruption from the mediaeval Latin 

 name of the plant ; but the derivation appears to us too 

 far-fetched to be of any real value. In Ireland the plant 

 is the Kearin Leana, and in Wales we believe it to be the 

 Llys Cadwgan, though on turning to Gerarde we find that 

 he gives Y Nyfieivyn bendigedie ; possibly this may be an 

 older word, but as a knowledge of Welsh is not, unfortu- 

 nately, one of our possessions, we must leave the point un- 

 settled. The mediaeval herbalists called the plant capon's 

 tail, on account, we are told, of its spreading head of 

 white flowers to our minds, a very unsatisfactory explana- 

 tion. Other old names were Theriacaria, Marinella, Ama:i- 

 tilla, Genicularis, and Terdina. 



CASSELL, FETTER, G\LPIX & Co., BELLE SAUVAGE WORKS, LONDON, E C. 



