46 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Tussilago Far/am. Commonly called " Dour Dockan." 

 Prunella vulgaris, L. Common name "Tea." 

 Lamium purpureum, L. Called "Long-tongue." 



Plantago lanceo/ata, L. Used by school-boys for a game called 

 " Sodgers " (Soldiers). 



fiumex Acetosa and R. Acetosella. Usually called " Sourags." 



Orchis maculata, L. " Dogs' doddles." 



Iris pseudacorus, L. Common name "Sags." 



Cynosurus cristatus, L. " Kemps." The stems of this used to be 

 plaited into small ropes (simmons), and used for tying up or 

 binding straw baskets called " keyses." 



Lycopodium Selago, L. Used to be called " Limmerach." 

 CROYDON, December 1904. 



[NOTE. With reference to the above " Contribution," a few 

 remarks may be not out of place. 



Scabiosa arvensis, L. This plant is common in South Kin- 

 cardineshire ; but in Aberdeenshire I have rarely seen it, and only 

 under conditions that suggest its being rather a casual than even a 

 denizen. I found one large example in 1888 in a pasture field in 

 Orkney, in the parish of Sandwick. 



Some of the local names suggest a relationship with local names 

 given by Dr. Schubeler in the " Viridarium norvegicum," but, rather 

 strangely, most of the latter are names given in districts of Germany. 

 Such are Poppelken and Puppen for the white water-lily ; Jarrn, 

 Jarre, Tjark for Spergula arvensis (with which the popular name 

 in Scotland, Yarr, is evidently related) ; Malkrant for Spiraa 

 Ulmaria ; Sigge and Ssigge for Iris pseudacorus. In Orkney the 

 usual name for Iris was, and I suppose still is, pronounced Saeg. 

 The following popular names seem to point to Scandinavian sources 

 rather than to German : Chrysanthemum segetnm has the names 

 Gulort, Gullkrage and Gidleblomma given to it in Sweden, and Gul 

 Oxb'ie in Denmark, clearly from the same origin as the names 

 Guile (used in some parts of Scotland), Gull, Go/land, Gowlan, 

 Golding, and other variants in our islands, and Golans of 

 Caithness. 



Lummar or Lummer, Swedish names for Lycopodium clavatum, 

 and Lommer, the Norse name for L. Selago, suggest the source of 

 Limmerach for the latter plant in Caithness. JAMES W. H. 

 TRAIL.] 



