BRITISH NAMES. 
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Daisy, middle Doronicum bellidiastrum 
Daisy, Michaelmas ; or aster Aster 
Damson tree (a variety) Prunus domestica 
Damson tree, W. Indian Chrysophyllum glabrum 
Dandelion,ordent-de-lion,common Leontodon taraxacum 
Dane-wort; wall-wort; or dwarf"! c , , ? ? 
elder \b(i7Yibucus coulus 
Darnel; or rye grass Loliumperenne 
Darnel, annual Lolium temulentum 
Date paL daCtyl tree ; * ° r SreatCT }Ptenix dactylifira 
Devil in a bush; or fennel flower Nigella damascena 
Scabiosa succisa 
Leontodon autumnah 
Convolvulus arvensis 
Rubus casius 
Reseda luteola 
Genista tinctoria 
Anethum graveolens 
Lepidium latifolium 
Dictamnus albus 
Origanum dictamnus 
f Marrubium pseudodictam- 
\ nus 
Rumex * 
Devil’s-bit 
Devil’s-bit, yellow 
Devil’s-gut; or cornbind 
Dewberry bush 
Dyer’s weed ; or wild woad 
Dyer’s weed ; or dyer’s broom 
Dill 
Dittander; or pepper-wort 
Dittany, white ; or fraxinella 
Dittany of Crete f 
Dittany, base 
Dock 
Dr. Tinker s weed; or fever root; \ rr . , p r . 
r , . ’ flnosteum perfohatum 
or false ipecacuana J r ./ 
* The Africans have a superstitious tradition, that when the Virgin Mary was in 
^travail, it was near a date tree; and when in pain, she exclaimed 66 O that I had 
some dates!" and immediately the letter O became marked on the stone of the 
fruit.—It seems all date-stones have a circular mark on them, like the letter O. 
f No plant hath been so highly extolled by the antients, as the dittany of Crete ; 
viz. by Theophrastus, Hippocrates, Plutarch, Cicero, Dioscorides, &c. It is pecu¬ 
liar to the island of Crete (now Candia), and is not found native in any other 
country; and the inhabitants at present apply it with success on many occasions. 
An infusion of the dried leaf with a little sugar, yields a liquor more pleasing to the 
palate, and more finely flavoured than tea. It immediately removes languor of the 
stomach, and restores it after digestion. 
Letters on Greece by M. Savary, printed 1788. 
Virgil celebrates this plant as a vulnerary, and gives a particular description of it 
tinder the name dictamnus , called so from its growing on Mount Dicte, as on 
Mount Ida; both being in the island of Crete. JEn . xii, 1 . 411 . 
