The term “Hoosiers,” as applied to the citizens of Indiana, is derived either from husher, a term synonymous throughout the West with bully or rough, as many of the early settlers were bullies and men of great physical strength, or from the rough exclamation of these people when one knocked at a door, “Who’s yere?”
361. Why is the passion flower so called?
It was named by the early Spanish settlers, who fancied it to be a representation of our Lord’s passion.
The leaf is symbolic of the spear that pierced his side.
The five anthers, the marks of the wounds.
The tendrils, the cords or whips.
The column of the ovary, the upright of the cross.
The stamens, the hammers.
The three styles, the nails.
The filamentous processes, the crown of thorns.