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GLOSSARY. 381
Gyelaf-e
ccwt.
curialis, the herb mercury, D.," nnd so
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Gl. Harl. 978, yet all the gnaphaliums
have very lasting blooms, retaining their
colour when dry ; the G. margaritaceum
is specially our modern Everlasting, and
found " near Bocking, on the banks of
" the Rhymney, in Wire forest, and near
" Lichfield." Skinner also, Gnaphalium
Americanum, which is a misnomer by
Ray. The genus is in Dausk, Evighedsblomster.
Cjopyeapn, neut., gen. -ey, polypody, poli/-
poditim vuJgare. Hb. Ixxxvi., where it
= Radiolus ;
" Alii filicinam dicunt,
" similis est filici, qum fere in lapidetis
" nascitur vel in parietinis, habens in
" foliis singulis binos ordines puncto-
" rum aureormn," Lat. In MS. Bodley,
130, a fern, as polypodium is drawn and
a Gloss, in a hand of the 12th century
gives "wilde brake." "Felix (read
" Filix) queirciua poUipodium . i . ewer-
" wan," Gl. M. ">e iii.d is ouerfern,
" and t-at groys on walles," MS. Bodley,
536. " Polypodyn . i . ouerferne 't it
" grewitj on okys \>is is lest," id. " Poly-
" podium murale, euerfern," MS. Rawlinson,
c. 506. To the entry, " Polypo-
" dium arborale, pollipodie ; PoUipodium
" murale, euerferne," MS. Harl. 3388, has
been added a cross, so as to invert the interpretations.
" Polypodium rubeas ma-
" culas habet et uocatur filix quercina .
" i . euerferne," id. " ffilex quercina pol-
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lopodium, euerferne idem (sunt)," id.
" Filix a[r]boratica, ejojijreapn," Gl.
Somn. p. 64 a, 14. Culpeper, under
polypody of the oak, describes at length
and cleverly, pol. vulg. (H.), and his
mention is one link in a long medicinal
tradition. "And why, I pray, must
" polypodium of the oak only be used,
" gentle college of physicians Can
" you give me but a glimpse of reason
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for it It is only because it is
" dearest." Culpeper. Polypodium vulgare
is "very frequent on the tops of
ej-op]-ea]in— cont.
" walls, old thatched roofs, shady banks
" and the mossy trunks of rotten trees."
(Sir J. E. Smith.) Its fructification
forms a double row of golden spots on
each frondlet. See also his allusion to
tradition in English Botany, 1 149. The
older names were, "polypodium quer-
" cinum ; filix arborum ; filicula ; herba
ehheolo>e, heahheolo)'e, gen. -an, fem.
elecampane, inula heleninm; from eh,
" radioli." (Nemnich.) Italian, felcequercina.
The figure in MS. V. " would
" do very well for plantago lanceolata,
" (H.), it is not a fern at all." The
gender neuter, Boet. p. 48, 1. 31 ; Lb.
L Ivi.
horse, equus, = heah, horse, "ttttos. "Ele-
" campana ys an erbe \>at som men
" callej> horshele, he beryth grene levis
" and longe stalkys and berith yelowe
" fioures." Gl. Sloane, 5, fol. 22 c ; so
Gl. Bodley, 178. Lb. I. xxxii. 2 ; L i.
5, etc.
eicpa, latter, comp. adj. Lb. II. i. 1, related
to elcian, be late ; Clcung, late-
7iess ;
elcop, later, adverb.
elehrpe, gen. -an, lupin, the cultivated
sort of course, lupinut) albus; so translated,
Hb. cii. 3. Given for dian-hoea,
Lb. III. xxii. " Electrum multos habet
" stipites folia virid[i]a et fiores cro-
" ceos," Gl. Harl. 3388. " Syluestres
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lupini Candida habent folia. Sativi
" foliis non adeo albicant," Dorsten.
" Lypinus . i . lyponys, ]>m erbe has
" leuys lyke to t^e v. levyd grass, bote
" }>e erbe fore the more party has v.
" leues and a whyt floure, etc.," MS.
Bodley, 536. " Clehtpe, maura," MS.
in Somner. "Walupia, electre," GL
Dun.
elhygb, strange thought, distraction. Lb.
n. xlvi. >ysb is found fem. neut.
elm, masc, gen -ef, elm, ulmus campestris;
perhaps also u. sativa. Gen. elmef, Lbv
I. vi. 8, therefore like old Dansk, Almr,
elm, masc.