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A DICTIONARY OF 
Melancholy Thistle. A book-name for Carduus heteropliyllus, L. — 
With. ed. ii. Prior, p. 152. 
Melefowr. Achillea Millefolium, 'h. — ‘An old spelling of Milfoil. 
“ Plucking ‘ ane herb called melefowr, quhilk causis the nose bleed,’ 
• — sitting on the right knee, and pulling it ‘ betuix the midfinger and 
thombe, and saying of in nomine Patris, Filii et Spiritus Sancti,’ was 
to impart the faculty of prediction” (Trial of Elspeth Reoch, 12 
March 1616. Eec. Ork. f. 63).’ Dalyell’s Darker Superstitions of 
Scotland (1834), p. 523. 
Meigs. Cheiiopodium album, L. — Moray, FI. M. 
Melick, or Melick Grass. A book-name for the genus Melica. — 
With. ed. ii. 
Melilot. The general book-name for Melilotus officinalis, L. — 
‘ Mellilot is an herbe so named and y® sede is called mellylot also.’ 
Grete Herball. Turn. Names. Prior, p. 152. 
Melilot Trefoil. Medicago lupulina, L. — ‘ The old writers call it 
Melilot Trefoil.^ Mart. Mill., but we have not met with the name in 
earlier works. 
Melmot, or Melmont, Berries. Juniperus communis, L. — Moray, 
Jamieson. 
Mel - silvestre. ‘ Honey-suckle.’ Hal. Archseologia, xxx. 410. 
Lonicera Peridymenum, L. 
Meols. See Meals. 
Meon. See Mew. 
Merch. See March. 
Mercury. (1) Mercurialis perennis, L. — Lyte, and now the common 
book-name. E. Yhs. ; E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. Prior, p. 152. 
(2) Chenopodium Bonus- Henricus, L. — ‘ Of some it is taken for 
Mercurie.’ Lyte, p. 561. This appears to be intended in Turn. 
Names, where he says : ‘ The herbe whiche is comunely called in 
english mercury hath nothyng to do with Mercurialis.’ In Cogan’s 
Haven of Health (p. 44) it seems also to be the plant referred to. He 
says it is not Mercurialis, and adds : ‘ It is a common proverbe 
among the people, Be thou sick or whole, put Mercurie in thy koale.’ 
Cumh. ; Line, (where it is commonly cultivated as a pot-herb under 
the name of Marquery), Hal. Wr., E. D. S. Gloss. C. Q', E. Yks. 
Tusser mentions it in his list of ‘ seedes and herbes for the kitchen ’ 
(E. D. S., Series D., p. 93). 
Mercury, Baron’s. See Baron’s Mercury. 
Mercury, Boy’s. See Boy’s Mercury. 
Mercury, Dog’s. See Dog’s Mercury. 
Mercury, English. Chenogjodium Bonus-Henricus, L. — Ger. 
Mercury, False. See False Mercury. 
Mercury, French. Mercurialis annua, L. — With. ed. ii. Prior, p. 
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