ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Floter-grasse, bicause they swim and flote in tbe water ; ’ and tbis 
seems the obvious meaning, although Prior prefers to regard the name 
as referring to their ‘ abounding in doted or irrigated meadows.’ Hal. 
and Wr. give Float-grass as referring in Dev. to ‘ grass growing in 
swampy ground.’ 
Flous Docken. See Flowster-docken. 
Flower Constantinople. Lychnis Chalcedonica, L. — Lyte. A trans- 
lation of its old name, Flos constantinopolitanus : more usually written 
Flower of Constantinople (Park. Theatr., &c.). Prior, p. 81. 
Flower de Luce, Yellow. Iris Pseudacorus, L. — Lyte. Turn. Lib. 
‘ A yeloiue floure de lyce’ See Prior, p. 80. 
Flower Gentle, See Floramor. Prior, p. 81. 
Flowering Box. See Box. 
Flowering, or Flowery, Fern. Osmunda regalis, L. — Prior, p. 77. 
This plant was formerly called Filix Jiorida or Jiorescens, 
Flowering Eush. Butomns imibellatns, L. — Park. Theatr. Prior, 
p. 81. 
Flower of Bristow. Lychnis Chcdcedonica, L. — Park. Theatr. 
Prior, p. 81. 
Flower of the Axe. See Axe. 
Flowery Docken. See Docken, Flowery. . 
Flowk-wort. Hydrocotyle vulgaris, L. — Norf. From a supposition 
that it causes the ‘ flukes ’ which accompany liver- rot in sheep. Prior, 
p. 81. 
Flowrie Cole. A cauliflower. — Lyte. 
Flowster-docken. Digitcdis p)ur 2 mrea, L. — YJcs. (Whitby), E. D. S, 
Gloss. C. 2. This means the dock with showy flowers, flowster being 
explained in the same Gloss, as ‘ to flourish or flutter in showy 
colours.’ The same Gloss, gives Flous-docken and Floss-docken. 
Flox, Mountain. See Flax, Mountain. 
Fluellen. Veronica officincdis, L. — Wr. ‘In Welch it is called 
Fluellen, and the Welch people do attribute great vertues unto the 
same.’ — Ger. In Turn. Names it is given as Fluellyng. Prior 
derives the name from a Dutch word ^ fiiiweelen, downy, velvety;’ 
and refers it to Linaria spuria, L. (Male Fluellin), and Veronica 
Chamaedrys, L. (Female Fluellin). But Gerard’s figure and descrip- 
tion of the Fluellin leave no doubt but that V. officinalis, L., is meant, 
and this is certainly the Llysiau Llewellyn, or Llewellyn’s Flower, of 
the older Welsh dictionaries, so that we may fairly regard the name 
as one of the few to which Tve can attribute a Welsh origin. In R. 
Turner’s Botanologia, p. 123, wdll be found a supposed reason for the 
name, which we do not think it necessary to reproduce : he calls it 
‘ Fluellin or Lluellin.’ Ger. extends the name to many other species 
of Veronica, while he calls both Linaria spuria, L,, and L. Elatine, L., 
Female Fluellin, not Male F,, as stated by Prior. 
