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BEGGAR WEED. (1) The Cover Dodder, 
Cuscuta Trifolii, from its destructiveness to Clover, 
&c. Also 
(2) Greater Dodder, Cuscuta europa. 
BELLA Donna. The Deadly Nightshade, 
Atropa Belladonna. This name is Italian, and 
means “‘ fair lady ”’; it is said to have been given 
to this plant owing to its berries being used by 
the Italian ladies as a cosmetic. 
BELL-BIND. (1) Field Bindweed, Convolvulus 
arvensis. 
(2) Hedge Bindweed, Calystegia sepium. 
BELL-FLOWER. (1) A common name for the 
Daffodil, Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus, from its 
shape. 
(2) For the same reason any plant of the 
genus Campanula, including the popular Harebell, 
C. rotundifolia, which is known as the Bellflower 
in many parts of Somerset, Dorset, and Devon. 
BELL HEATHER. The large flowering pink or 
white Heather, Erica Tetraliz. 
BELLOWS FLOWER. Dicentra spectabilis, which 
has a great variety of popular names, including 
Bleeding Heart, Lady’s Lockets, Lyre Flower, 
Dutchman’s Breeches, &c. 
BELL Rope. Daffodil, Narcissus Pseudo- 
Narcissus. I have only heard this name from 
Mr. W. C. Baker (a gardener). I asked him if 
he was not confusing it with ‘‘ Bell Rose,”’ but he 
was very emphatic that he had heard the flowers 
called Bell Ropes. 
BELL-ROsSE. One of the commonest names for 
the Daffodil, Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus. 
BELLUMS. A Watchet correspondent gives me 
this as the local name for the Bullace, the fruit 
of Prunus insititia. 
BENNETS. Long Coarse Grass: long stems of 
various Grasses, particularly Agrostis ; used both 
of withered stalks of coarse grasses and of growing 
heade of Cat’s Tail, &c. Also long Plantain 
Stalks and Seedheads. I am indebted to Mr. T. 
W. Cowan for the couplet 
Pigeons never know no woe 
Till they A-BENNETTING do go. 
BENT-GRASS. Any wiry grass, such as usually 
grows upon a common or other neglected broken 
ground. 
BENTS. See BENNETS. 
BERGAMERS. Mr. Edward Vivian, of Trow- 
bridge, gives me this as the local name of a small, 
sweet, green pear; probibly a corruption of 
BERGAMOT. 
BERRY Hotty. Holly with berries, Jlex 
Aquifolium (East Somerset, and Wilts). Mr. 
Vivian tells me that in the Trowbridge dis- 
trict this is the usual name for Holly. 
