Note 158:1 — MARIGOLD.
Reading edition
"Solsequium vel heliotropium; Solsece vel sigel-hwerfe" (i.e., sun-seeker or sun-turner).—Ælfric's Vocabulary.
"Marigolde; solsequium, sponsa solis."—Catholicon Anglicum.
In a note Mr. Herttage says, "the oldest name for the plant was ymbglidegold, that which moves round with the sun."