Note E237 — 43.
Reading edition
"Bachelor's Buttons." So called, according to Johnson's Gerarde, p. 472, "from their similitude to the jagged cloathe buttons anciently worne in this kingdom," but according to others from "a habit of country fellows to carry them in their pockets to divine their success with their sweethearts." Called by Lyte (Dodoens, p. 421), Goldcup or Gold knoppe, and described as a double variety of the flower now known so well as the Butterflower, or Buttercup, the Fr. bouton d'or.