"Aconita, thung." "Durham Glossary of the names of Worts," 11th century.
The ancient Vocabularies and Glossaries, to which I shall frequently refer, are printed in
I. Wright's "Volume of Vocabularies," 1857.
II. "Leechdoms, Wortcunning, and Starcraft of Early England," by Rev. O. Cockayne, published under the direction of the Master of the Rolls, 3 vols., 1866.
III. "Promptorium Parvulorum," edited by Albert Way, and published by the Camden Society, 3 vols., 1843-65.
IV. "Catholicon Anglicum," edited by S. J. Hertage, and published by the Early English Text Society, 1881, and by the Camden Society, 1882.
[10:2] This was certainly its name in Shakespeare's time—
"And with the Flower Monk's-hood makes a coole."
Cutwode, Caltha Poetarum, 1599 (st. 117).