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A DICTIONARY OF 
Field Nigella, or Field Nigelweed. Lychnis Githago, Lam. — Lyte, 
who says : ‘ Certayne fond people do use it in the steede of Yuray or 
Darnell, or for the right Nigella, to the great daunger and perill of 
the sicke people.’ 
Fieldwort. Gentiana Amarella, L. — Ger. Appx. Hal. Wr. See Fel- 
wort. Cfr. Cockayne, i. Ill, ii. 383; it may possibly be j&ryi/ircea 
Centaurium, L. 
Fiflef (^. e. five-leaf). ^The herb quinquefulium’ — Hal. YYr. NTo 
doubt Potentilla reptans, L. 
Figer-tree. ^ A fig-tree.’ — Hal. Wr, 
Fightee, or Fighting Cocks. See Cocks. 
Fig Bean. See Bean. 
Figs. (1) Callithamnion floriclulumj Ag. — Ireland (West Coast), 
where ‘ at the close of summer great quantities of its hemispherical 
densely-matted and aggregated cushions, which are called figs by the 
country people, are washed on shore and collected as manure.’ — 
Phycologia Britannica. 
(2) ‘Eaisins.’ — Som. Hal. Pulman. 
Fig-wort. The general book-name for Scrophidaria aquatica, L., 
and S. nodosa, L. — Ger., who also calls them Great Figwort. Prior, 
p. 78. 
(2) Ranunculus Ficaria, L. — Turn. Names. 
Filaera, or Filayra. Eupatorium cannahinum, L. — E. Bord. Bot. 
E, Bord. No explanation is given of this odd name. In Lane, and 
dies, a variety of the potato is so called. 
Filbeard. An old spelling of filbert, used by Tusser. ‘Various 
derivations have been given for this word : one, the most probable, 
from full and heard, referring to the long heard or husk with which it 
is provided : cfr. Ger. hartnusz = bearded nut.’ — E. D. S. Gloss, to 
Tusser. It is still the dies, pronunciation of filbert. 
Filberd Tree, the nuts Filberdes. Corylus Avellana, L., var. grandis. 
— Lyte, Prior, p. 78. 
Filewort. Filago minima, Er. — Ger. Appx. Hal. Wr. 
[Fill. ‘ The plant restharrow. Gerard.’ — Hal. Wr. We do not find 
this in Ger.] 
Filly findillan. Fpirma Filipendula, L. — Ireland (Co. Clare). This 
would seem to be a corruption of the Latin specific name. 
Filmy Fern. A book-name for Hymenophyllum, L. — Prior, p. 77. 
Fimble. The male j^lant of Cannabis saliva, L. — Tusser ; Ess. 
Grose ; Puss. ‘ All the old writers in botany, blindly following the 
ancients, call the male plants female and the females males : the mis- 
take is still continued amongst the practical cultivators, who call the 
male plants femhle, or thimble hemp, which is e\ndently a cor- 
ruption of female.’ — Martyn (Flora Eustica). But, like Femble 
(which see), it seems nowadays to be correctly applied to the female 
