_Melilotus officinalis_ is Hart’s Clover; _Scolopendrium vulgare_, Hart’s Tongue; _Plantago Coronopus_, Hart’s Horn; _Scirpus cæspitosus_, Deer’s or Hart’s Hair; _Rhamnus catharticus_, Hart’s or Buck Thorn (_Spina cervina_); and _Tordylium maximum_, Hart Wort, so called because, as Dioscorides tells us, the juice of the leaves was given to Roes in order that they might speedily be delivered of their young. According to Pliny, the Roman matrons used to employ it for the same purpose, having been “taught by Hindes that eate it to speade their delivery, as Aristotle did declare it before.” The Raspberry is still sometimes called by its ancient name of Hindberry; and the _Teucrium Scorodonia_ is known as Hind-heal, from an old tradition that it cures Deer when bitten by venomous serpents. The Dittany is said to have the same extraordinary effect on wounded Harts as upon Goats (see DITTANY, Part II.). Numerous indeed are the plants named after the Horse, either on account of the use they are put to, the shape of their foliage, &c., their large size, or the coarseness of their texture. _Inula Helenium_ is Horse-heal, a name attached to the plant by a double blunder of _Inula_ for _hinnula_, a Colt, and _Helenium_, for heal or heel; employed to heal Horses of sore heels, &c. _Vicia Faba_ is the Horse Bean; _Teucrium Chamædrys_, the Germander, is called Horse Chire, from its springing up after Horse-droppings. _Melampyrum sylvaticum_ is the Horse Flower, so called from a verbal error. The Alexandrian Laurel was formerly called Horse Tongue. _Tussilago Farfara_, from the shape of its leaf, is termed Horse Hoof. _Centaurea nigra_ is Horse Knob. Another name for Colt’s Foot is Horse Foot; and we have Horse Thistle, Mint, Mushroom, Parsley, Thyme, and Radish. The Dutch Rush, _Equisetum_, is called Horse Tail, a name descriptive of its shape; _Hippocrepis comosa_ is known as the Horse-shoe Vetch, from the shape of the legumes; and, lastly, the _Œnanthe Phellandrium_ is the Horse Bane, because, in Sweden, it is supposed to give Horses the palsy. In Mexico, the Rattle Grass is said to instantly kill Horses who unfortunately eat it. The Indians call the Oleander Horse’s Death, and they name several plants after different parts of the Horse. In connection with Horses, we must not forget to mention the Moonwort, which draws the nails out of the Horses’ shoes, and of which Culpeper writes: “Moonwort is an herb which they say will open locks and unshoe such Horses as tread upon it; this some laugh to scorn, and those no small fools neither; but country people that I know, call it Unshoe-the-Horse. Besides, I have heard commanders say that, on White Down, in Devonshire, near Tiverton, there were found thirty horse-shoes, pulled off from the Earl of Essex’s horses, being then drawn up in a body, many of them being newly shod, and no reason known, which caused much admiration, and the herb described usually grows upon