quercula

quercula [ML] 1 small oak, oak-sapling. 1257 in bosco ‥ de Boxtede xx quercus et bosco de Langeho ~as ‥ ad pontes et clayas inde faciendas ad naves Pat 71 m. 9. 2 (bot.) kind of plant or herb: a (~a major) ground-pine (Ajuga chamaepitys). b (~a minor or ellipt.) germander (Teucrium chamaedrys). a camepiteos [χαμαίπιτυς], ~a major, germandria major idem SB 14; germandrea major, camepitheos [χαμαίπιτυς], ~a major idem Alph. 74; ~a major, camepitheos [χαμαίπιτυς], crassula major, germandria idem Ib. 152.  b querzolla, i. camedrea [χαμαίδρυς] Gl. Laud. 1248; foliorum gariot’ sufficienter, absin’ parum ~e maj’ et mino’ Gilb. I 48. 2; camedreos, ~a minor, germandria minor idem SB 14; camedreos [χαμαίπιτυς] ‥ quartula minor vel germa andrea Alph. 28; cersula, respice in camedrios Ib. 36; germandrea minor, camedreos [χαμαίπιτυς], ~a minor idem Ib. 74; ~a minor, polion [πολιὀν] camedreos, germandrea minor, crassula minor ‥ valet contra quartanam Ib. 152; ~a, A. germander aut Englyshe tryacle dicitur Turner Herb. A iv (v. germandrea a).