3. Pass Wort, or Palsy Wort (_Primula veris_). "Herba paralyseos."

4. Guelder Rose (_Sambucus rosea_). "Quia ex Gueldria huc translata est."

Gueldria is, or rather was, a colony, founded by the Hollanders, on the

coast of Coromandel.

5. Ladies' Tresses, a corruption of _traces_. A kind of orchis, and used,

with its various appellations, "sensu obsc."

6. The Kentish term _Gazel_ is not improbably the same as _Gale_, which,

Skinner says, is from the A.-S. _Gagel_ (_Myrtus brabantica_).

7. Stitch Wort (_Gramen leucanthemum_, alias _Holostium pumilum_). "Sic

dict. quia ad dolores laterum punctorios multum prodesse creditur."

8. The term _Knappert_, for Bitter Vetch, is probably a corruption of Knap

Wort, the first syllable of which, as in Knap Weed and Knap Bottle, is

derived from the sound or snap emitted by it when struck in the hollow of

the hand.

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