That the Black Rood of Scotland, and the Cross of Holy Rood House were
distinct, there can, I think, be no doubt. The cross mentioned by Aelred is
not mentioned as the "Black Rood:" probably it acquired this designation
after his time. But Fordoun, in the _Scoti-Chronicon_, Lord Hailes in his
_Annals_, and other historians, have taken Aelred's account as referring to
the Black Rood of Scotland. Whether it had been brought from Dunfermline to
Edinburgh before Edward's campaign, and remained thenceforth deposited in
Holy Rood Abbey, does not appear: but it is probable that a relique to
which the sovereigns of Scotland attached so much veneration was kept at
the latter place.

W.S.G.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nov. 2. 1850.

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REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES.

_Hæmony_ (Vol. ii., p. 88.).--MR. BASHAM will find some account of this
plant under the slightly different type of "Hemionion" in Pliny, xxv. 20.,
xvi. 25., xxvii. 17.:

"Invenit et Teucer eadem ætate Teucrion, quam quidam 'Hemionion'
vocant, spargentem juncos tenues, folia parva, asperis locis nascentem,
austero sapore, nunquam florentem: neque semen gignit. Medetur lienibus
... Narrantque sues qui radicem ejus ederint sine splene inveniri.

"Singultus hemionium sedat.