hartwort
(ˈhɑːtwɜːt)
[A 16th c. spelling of heartwort, q.v.]
1. Applied by early herbalists to their genus Seseli, including various umbelliferous plants now placed elsewhere.
Seseli æthiopicum is now Laserpitium latifolium, Herb Frankincense.
| 1562 Turner Herbal ii. 135 a, Seseli Ethiopicum groweth in diuerse partes of hyghe Germanye..som call it hartzwurt..wherefore we maye call it Hartwurt, wyth the Duche men, vntyll we fynde a better name for it. 1611 Cotgr., Siler, the hearbe Seseli, Hartwort. 1668 Wilkins Real Char. ii. iv. §4. 90 Umbelliferous Herbs of Finer Leaves..Hart-wort. 1693 Salmon Bates' Dispens. (1713) 23/2 Hart⁓wort, or Bastard Lovage. 1714 French Bk. of Rates 89 Hart-wort per 100 weight, 01 00. 1715 Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXIX. 239 Shrub Hartwort, Ray 476, c. 5 [= Bupleurum fruticosum]. 1886 Syd. Soc. Lex., Hartwort, the Laserpitium siler, and the Tordylium maximum. H. French, H. of Marseilles, Seseli tortuosum. |
2. A book-name for Tordylium maximum, one of the plants formerly included in the genus Seseli.
| 1787 Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 2) I. 269 1824 J. E. Smith Eng. Flora I. 103. 1846 Sowerby Eng. Bot. (ed. 3), Great-Hart-Wort, Tordylium Maximum. 1866 Treas. Bot., Hartwort, Tordylium. |