† sermountain Obs.
[a. OF. sermontain (also sel-, seur-), sermontaygne, ad. med.L. siler montanum, lit. mountain willow.]
The umbelliferous plant Laserpitium Siler. (Cf. hartwort 1.)
| c 1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 169 Sifula..gallice et anglice sermontaygne. Ibid. 169 Siseleos uel siselenum..gall. et angl. sermontayne. 1640 Parkinson Theat. Bot. 909 Ligusticum verum sive Siler montanum. Libisticke or Sermountaine of Liguria. 1768 W. Lewis Mat. Med. (ed. 2) 541 Seseli..Hartwort or Sermountain. |