CHAPTER XII 
KINSHIP AMONGST FLOWER-NAMES AND BIRD- 
NAMES, WITH GLOSSARY 
There is something to me very interesting in tracing how 
some marked peculiarity of feature or qualification results 
in almost synonymous names in different countries. In 
the following little Glossary I have followed this out, not so 
perfectly as I could wish, dealing, of course, only with such 
flowers and birds as I have come across. I think it also 
curious that some of the flower-names mentioned as 
common ones of the day in my old Queen Anne Herbal 
still survive beyond the sea among cultured folk in America ; 
for instance, the garden Orpine is known by Americans as 
“ Live for ever ” and “ Midsummer men.” Names which 
have died out of usage in the Laird’s garden may sometimes 
be found in the mouth of the hind who, while he will talk of 
a Daisy to his master, may be heard calling it a Gowan to 
his bairn in the Kailyard. Names are often synonymous 
in two or three countries and not in others ; for instance, 
what we call Asters in England are known as Reine Mar- 
guerites in France, and as Queen Margarets in America. 
Many of the English names given in the following pages 
are unknown here, but still survive in some counties of 
England, others are only now to be found in old Herbals. 
I do not pretend to have here] every flower’s many names, 
but such as struck my fancy. 
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