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A DICTIONARY OP 
people commonly use to take tlie berries of it, and having bruised 
them, they apply them to felons, and therby soon rid their fingers of 
such troublesome guests.’ — Culpeper. 
(2) Clielidonium majus, L. — Buddie MS. 
(3) Imperatoria Ostruthiiim, L. — Cuomb. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 8, p. xxi. 
Fellwort. See Felwort. 
Felt. Triticum repens, L. — Scotl. Jamieson. 
Feltrike. ‘The small centaury.’ — Prompt. Parv. Hal. Erythrcea 
Centauriiim, L. This appears to be only a corruption of the old Latin 
name, fel terrce. 
Feltwort (A.S.). Verbascum Thapsus, T j . — ‘The felty leaves give it 
the name, whence it is also called in German wollhraut “ Eilt- 
rmn terre, anglice /eZ^^(;or^ vel molayn idem,” Gl. Pawl. c. 607 
Feltwort vel hege taper, Gl. Arund. 42.’ — Cockayne, ii. 383. 
Felwort. Gentiana Amarella, L. (‘the herb baldmony,’ MS. 
Sloane, Ilal. AYr., Grete Herball), and other species of gentian, Ger. 
gives also Felwort Gentian. Prior, p. 75. ‘A mongrel word mixed 
of Latine and English together.’ — Coles, A. in E. Cfr. Cockayne, ii. 
383. 
Female Cornel Tree. Cornns sanguined, L. — Lyte. A translation 
of its old Latin name Cornus foemina. 
Female Dragons. See Dragons. 
Female Fern. Pteris aquilina, L. — Lyte. Prior, p. 77. This is a 
translation of Filix foemina, the old Latin name of the Bracken, the 
Filix mas being Neplirodium Filix-mas, Rich. These two are placed 
together by Lyte, who says : ‘ There be two kindes of femes (as 
Dioscorides writeth) the male and the female, the which in leaves are 
very well lyke one another.’ 
Female Hemp, of the old herbalists, is the male plant of hemp, 
Cannabis sativa, L. — ‘The femell hempe .... beareth no sede.’ — 
Eitzherbert, Book of Husbandry. See Carl Hemp. 
Female Hems. ‘ AYild hemp.’ — Line. Hal. AYr. This is most 
likely Galeopsis Tetrahit, L. 
Female Pimpernel. Anagallis arvensis, L., var. coerulea. — Lyte, as 
distinguished from the Scarlet or Male Pimpernel. The colours red 
and blue were frequently employed as signifying male and female 
respectively; see N. & Q. 4, x. 105, 154, 235. 
Femble. The male plant of Cannabis saliva, L. See Fimble and 
Carl Hemp. The term was constantly thus misapplied by the earlier 
writers, but is now more correctly used for the female plant. ‘ In the 
hemp districts of Norf. and about Lopham, the staminiferous 
hemp is called Carl-hemp ; the pistilliferous, Fenible-hQmp.^ — N. & Q. 
1, X. 292. 
Fenberry. Vaccinium Oxyeoccos, L. — Lyte; North, Hal. AYr. ; 
Staff. Prior, p. 76. A translated name : see Fen Grapes. 
Fenecel. ‘The herb sow fennel.’ — MS. Harl. Hal. Sow 
fennel, however, is not Foeniculum, but Peucedanum officinale, L. 
