With regard to the plant called _Hippomanes_, commentators, as may be seen from Kiessling's note on Theocritus, ii. 48., are by no means agreed. Certainly Andrews, in his edition of Freund, is wrong in referring Virgil _Georgic._ III. 283. to that meaning. The use of _legere_ probably misled.
_Wardhouse, where was?_ (Vol. viii., p. 78.).--It probably is the same as Wardoehuus or Vardoehus, a district and town in Norwegian Finmark, on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, inhabited principally by fishermen.
_Divining Rod_ (Vol. viii., p. 293.).--The inquirer should read the statement made by Dr. Herbert Mayo, in his letters _On the Truths contained in Popular Superstitions_, 1851, pp. 3-21. To the facts there recorded I may add, that I have heard Mr. Dawson Turner relate that he himself saw the experiment of the divining rod satisfactorily carried out in the hands of Lady Noel Byron; and some account of it is to be found, I believe, in an article by Sir F. Palgrave, in the _Quarterly Review_.
_Waugh, Bishop of Carlisle_ (Vol. viii., p. 271.).--His arms are engraved on a plate dedicated to him by Willis, in his _Survey of the Cathedrals of England_, 1742, vol. i. p. 284., and appear thus, _Argent, on a chevron gules, three besants_; but in a MS. collection by the late Canon Rowling of Lichfield, relating to bishops' arms, I find his coat thus given,--_Argent, on a chevron engrailed gules, three besants_. The variation may have arisen from an error of the engraver. It appears from Willis that Dr. Waugh was a fellow of Queen's College, Oxford; and the entry of his matriculation would no doubt show in what part of England his family resided. He was successively Rector of St. Peter's, Cornhill; Prebendary of Lincoln; Dean of Gloucester; and Bishop of { 401} Carlisle; to which latter dignity he was promoted in August, 1723.
_Pagoda_ (Vol. v., p. 415.).--The European word pagoda is most probably derived, by transposition of the syllables, from _da-go-ba_, which is the Pali or Sanscrit name for a Budhist temple. It appears probable that the Portuguese first adopted the word in Ceylon, the modern holy isle of Budhism.
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