Angelica, its Lat. name, either as Fuchs tells us, (Hist. Plant, p. 126,) "a suavissitno ejus radicis odore, quern spiral, " or " ab immeusa contra venena facultate," from the sweet^eent of its root, or its value as a remedy against poisons and the plague, yielding, as Brunschwygk tells us, "das aller-edelst wasser das man haben mag fiir die pestilenz and of which Du Bartas says, (Third day, p. 27,) Sylvester's translation, 1641, " Contagious aire ingendring Pestilence Infects not those that in their mouths have ta'en Angelica, that happy counterbane 10 POPULAR NAMES but they do not take the name immediately from the Latin, but through the Arabic, and call it albaricoque. The Italians again copy the Spanish, not the Latin, and call it albicocco. The French from them have abricol. The English, though they take their word from the French, at first called it abricoclc (restoring the Jc), and lastly with the French termination, apricot Prunus armeniaca, L. Arach, in Pr. Pm. and in Palsgrave Arage, the older spelling of Orach. Archal, a lichen called more commonly Orchil , Eoccella tinctoria, DC. Archangel, M. Lat. archangelica, so called, Parkinson tells us, " ab eximiis ejus viribus ; " Nemnich, from its having been revealed by an angel in a dream ; more probably from its being in blossom on the Archangel St. Michael's day, the 8th of May, old style, and thence supposed to be a preservative against evil spirits and witchcraft, and particularly against the disease in cattle called elfshot, G. hexenschuss, ulcera regia. The name is applied to an umbelliferous plant, Angelica archangelica, L.