ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Asphodel, Scotch. Tojieldia 'palustris^ Iluds. 
Aspodil, or Aspod-flower, apparently Asphodelas mmosus, L. — 
Holme, ii. 112. 
Ass-ear (Fr. oreille d’ane). Symphytum offidncde, L. — Homen- 
clator, 1585, p. 137. Hal. Wr. 
Asses-foot, from the shape of the leaves, Tussilago Farfara, L. — Hal. 
Wr. Prior, p. 12. 
Asses’ Thistle. ‘TheylsW Thistle ... of other days cannot now he 
exactly identified.’ — Pratt, ii. 117. The name seems to have been sug- 
gested by the Greek Onopordon, and is probably a book-name for 
Onopordum Acantliium, L. 
Ass-parsley, or Asse-perselie, Hhe chervil.’ — Hal. Wr. Dr Prior 
thinks ass-parsley is probably AEtlium Cynopium, L. ; it may be An- 
thriscus sylvestris, Hofim. — Prior, p. 12. It is probably a corruption 
of ac7ie-pars/ey=parsley-parsley ; just as beam-tree = tree-tree. 
Ass-plum, ‘ Florio has asinine^ a kinde of asse-phimd — Hal. AYr. 
Astrologia. Polygonum Bistorta, L. 
‘ Bistorta is called ... in the south country Astrologia.'^ — Turn. 
Names. Hal. and Wr. give Astrology as a herb mentioned by Gower 
and Palsgrave. 
Astrophell, Hal. AYr. Burnett (Aled. Bot.) thinks the Astropjliel of 
Spenser is Veronica Cliamcedrys, L. See Nares. Spenser appears 
to have called two plants by this name. His ‘ bitter astrofelV {Daplin. 
344) may be Aster Tripolium, as Nares conjectures; but in the other 
extract given by Nares from Todd’s Spenser, viii. 60, the Veronica 
may be meant. 
‘ That hearbe of some starlight is cald by name, 
Of others Penthia, though not so well ; 
But thou where ever thou doest find the same, 
From this day forth do call it astroplieV 
Atcnern, or Oak-atchern, an acorn. — Mid. Ches. 
Atchorn, an acorn. — Var. died. Hal. AYr. Hence edelwrning, 
gathering acorns. ‘ The pigs are gone o’ aitchorning.’ — Hartshorne, 
Salopia Antigua. 
Atterlothe, ‘Nightshade,’ AIS. Harl. 978, p. 25.— Hal. AYr. Mr. 
Cockayne (Leechd. i. 149) considers Panicum Crus-galli to have been 
intended ; but this could scarcely be. 
Aubepyne (Fr. auhepine). Crataegus Oxyacantlia^ L. — AYr. 
Augers. Salix viminalis, L. — Hence augerholm, an osier-holt. — 
Nhamp., Nth. Gloss. 
Aul. Alnus glutinosa^ L. — Heref. Hal. AYr. 
‘ When the bud of the aul is as big as the trout’s eye. 
Then that fish is in season in the river Wye.’ 
' Heref. Proverb. Hal, 
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Hence aulen^ made of Alder. 
