On the Popular Names of British Plants Being An Explanation of the Origin And M
On the Popular Names of British Plants Being An Explanation of the Origin And M
R C Alexander Richard Chandler Alexander Prior
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Palais de lievre, L. Palatium leporis, 102 POPULAR NAMES Q-. Hasen-ham, the same as the hare's lettuce, and so called from a superstition that the hare derives shelter and courage from it; as we learn from the Ortus Sanitatis, ch. 334: " Dises kraut heissend etlich hasenstrauch, etlich hasen- hauss ; dann so der hase darunder ist, so furchtet er sich nit, und duncket sich gantz sicher, wann dises kraut hat macht iiber die melancoley. Nun ist kein thiere als gar ein melancholicus als der hase. "... Sonchus oleraceus, L. HARE'S-PARSLEY, in Aubrey's Wilts, probably Anthriscus sylvestris, L. HARE'S-TAIL, from its soft flower-heads, Lagurus ovatus, L. HARE'S-TAIL-RUSH, a translation of Lat. Juncus cum cauda leporina, its name in Bauhin (Th. Bot. Ii. 514), and Plukenet (Aim. 201. ), from the protrusion, after flower- ing, of soft hypogynous bristles resembling a hare's tail, and its wiry rush-like stems, Eriophorum vaginatum, L. HARE-THISTLE, see HARE'S-LETTTJCE. HARIF, HEIRIFF, HAIREVE or HARITCH, in Pr.
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