Obs. [f. LIGHT(S) + WORT.] = LUNGWORT. Sea L., ? Mertensia maritima.
1587. Mascall, Govt. Cattle (1596), 18. Mixe the pouder of light wort (which growes among stones or on Okes, like a dried turfe nigh the ground) with [etc.]. Ibid., 267. Pomelle, so called in French, in Latin Consiligo, which I take to be the hearb called lightwort or comphere.
1770. Sir J. Hill, Herb. Brit., II. 163. Pneumaria Maritima, Sea Lightwort.
