An old name for various plants, from the shape of their leaves, or appearance of their branches. a. Senebiera Coronopus, Swine’s Cress. b. The Virginia Sumach (Rhus typhina). Also Buck’s horn Plantain, Buck’s horn Weld: species of PLANTAIN, WELD.
a. 1450. MS. Bodl. 536 (Cockayne, Leechd., III. 316). Bukes hornes or els swynes grese (grass) and has leues slaterde as an hertys horne.
1597. Gerard, Herbal, xcvi. § 1. 346. Bvckes horne … hath long narrowe hoarie leaues.
1712. Petiver, Rare Plants, § 6, in Phil. Trans., XXVII. 424. Virginia Sumach … the first Branches are very soft and velvety, like the Horns of a young Deer, for which reason its call’d Buckshorn by the Country People.
1719. London & Wise, Compl. Gard., 199. Bucks-horn Sallad is multipli’d only by Seed … Vide Harts-Horn Sallad.
Buck’s-horn, var. of BUCKHORN.
