Obs. A name given, according to Gerarde and later writers, to the wild hyacinth (Scilla nutans): by earlier writers sometimes to crow-garlic.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Gram. (Z.), 311. Hermodactula vel tidolosa crawan leac.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 376. Nim … þa wyrt … þæt is on ure geþeoda þæt greata crauleac.
a. 1387. Sinon. Barthol. (Anecd. Oxon.), 38. Scordion, allium agreste, florem habet blauum. Similis est allio ortolano, florem habet indum, angl. Crowelek.
c. 1450. Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.), 177. Scordam, i. alium agreste … angl. wildelek uel crauwelek.
1597. Gerarde, Herbal, App. to Table.
