630 The American Naturalist. [July, 
Rocket or Rocket Salad is called in France, roguette, cresson de 
fontaine, salade de vingt-quatre heures; in Germany, rauke, 
senfkohl ; in Flanders, Zrapkool; in Holland, rakette kruid ; in 
Italy, ricola, ruca, ruccola, ruchetta, rucola ; in Spain, Jaramago, 
oruga, raqueta ; in Portugal, finchao,? in Greece, aromatos, 
euzomaton, roka ; in Egypt, djaerdjir ; in Arabic, gergyr 
ROSEMARY. Rosmarinus officinalis L. 
This aromatic herb, whose leaves are sometimes used for sea- 
soning, had many virtues ascribed to it by Pliny, and it is also 
mentioned by Dioscorides and Galen. It was also familiar to 
the Arab physicians of Spain in the thirteenth century, and is 
mentioned in an Anglo-Saxon herbal of the eleventh century." 
The first notice I find of its use as a condiment is by Lignamine 
in 1475,” who describes Rosemary as the usual condiment with 
salted meats. In 1783 it is described by Bryant? as so common 
in gardens as to be known to every one, and it also finds men- 
tion in nearly all the earlier botanies. In 1778 Mawe'* names 
four varieties, the common narrow-leaved, broad-leaved, the 
silver-striped, and gold-striped leaved. It was in American gar- 
dens in 1806 or earlier. 
Rosemary is called in France, romarin, encensoir, herbe aux 
couronnes ; in Germany, rosmarin ; in Flanders and Holland, 
rozemarijn ; in Denmark, rosmarin ; in Italy, rosmarino ; in 
Spain, romero ; in Portugal, alecrim;” in Greece, dendrolibanon ;'5 
in Arabic, iyl, aselbam," vkleelul-jilbal, hasalban-achsir ;* in 
India, bubureeah,” in Tagalo, romero? 
9 Pickering. Ch. Hist., 281. 
3 Delile. Fl. Aeg. Ill. 
12 Lignamiine. De Conserv. Sanitatis, 1475, c. 81, quoted from Pharmacog., l.c. 
3 Bryant. Fl. Diet., 1783, 141. 
16 Hogg. Hooker's vr of Bot., 1., 134. 
en Fl. Aeg., Ill, 
Birdwood. Veg. Prod. of Bomb., 65, 242. 
1 Spocde, Ind. Handb, of Gard., 186. 
20 Pickering. Ch. Hist., 459. 
