ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Heart’s Pansy. Viola tricolor, L. ' A curious corruptiou, and yet 
one will hear it used by country gardeners as if it were as regular a 
form as Heart’s-ease.’ Dev. Friend. 
Heart seed, add Dev. Friend. 
Heath, add (3) Empetrum nigrum, L. — Derh. 
Heath, St. Dabeoc’s. add Wade (Plant, rar. Hibern., 29) says, 
‘ the charm which Eay has attributed to it I could not trace in any 
shape whatsoever in Cunnemara.’ 
Heaver. Lolium pereoxne, L. — Dev. (Plymouth). FI. Plymouth. 
Cfr. Eaver. 
Hedge-Strawberry. Fragaria vesca, L. — Dev. (Plymouth). FI. 
Plymouth. 
Helleborine. add The name was given by Gerard, who says 
‘ Helleborine is like unto AVhite Hellebore [ Veratrum alhnni], and for 
that cause we have given it the name of Helleborine.’ Ger. 358. 
Hell-root. Orohanehe minor, V. — Kent ; ‘ from its destructiveness to 
clover.’ Eochester Naturalist, i. 39. 
Helver. Ilex Aquifolium, L. — Suff., also Hulver, which is in 
actual use in that county. 
Hen and Chickens, add (2) Dev. Friend. 
(4) Dev. ; Sal. ; Burr. 
(g) Lotus corniculatus, L. — Oxf. (Banbury). 
(7) Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus, L. — Dev. Friend. 
Henbane, add ^ Destroy Henbane if any grows near your house ; 
for this will poison and kill both these and the other fowls.’ Ellis, 
New Experiments in Husbandry for the month of April (1736), 
p. 96. 
Hen Gorse. (1) add Ches. (Broxton). 
Henware. add Scotland (E. Coast), Edinb. Encycl. 
Hepatica. This seems to have been adopted at an early date as the 
popular name of Anemone Hepatica, L. ‘In English you may call 
them either Hepatica, after the Latine name, as most do, or noble 
Liverwort, which you please.’ Park. Parad. 226. 
Heps. (2) add Worlidge’s Systema Agriculturae, 1669, 271. 
Herb John, add ^We all know the many and soveraign vertues 
in your leaves, the Herb generate in ale pottage ; nor do you as Herb 
John stand neuter.’ Thos. Fuller, Anthologia, 1655, p. 41, writing 
of Calendula officinalis, L. 
Herby grass. Ruta graveolens, L. This form of Herb of grace is 
still in use near Sheffield. N. & Q. 6th S. vi. 408. 
Hi-how. add Ireland (Antrim and Down). E. D. S. Gloss. 
Hip. (1) add Surr. 
Hippety-haws. Fruit of Cratcegus Oxgacantha, L. — Sal. Shropsh. 
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