The same word is used as a Middle English gloss (‘anglice’) for the Latin plant name antifarmacum, i.e. ‘columbine’ (Plant Names 26-27). The term is presumably English, and the ‘gallice’ tag is used erroneously in the sole fifteenth-century manuscript. In spite of that, the term is absent from the OED and MED. The associations with ros¹ (‘reed’) and rose¹ (‘rose’) are provisional.