Composer’s Note:

Hedera, hed”er-a: n. genus of Old World woody vines (family Araliaceae) usually having palmate leaves but in adult form often becoming shrubby with unlobed leaves. The genus name Hedera is the Classical Latin word for ivy, which is cognate with Ancient Greek (khandn, ‘to get, grasp’), both deriving from Proto-Indo-European *ged- (‘to seize, grasp, take’). Hedera may thus be translated as ‘the clinging (plant)’.