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BERRY HouM. Holly with berries (Wivelis- 
combe). 
BrEsom. The Broom plant, often called Green 
Besom, Cylisis scoparius. An infusion of 
the leaves <f this plant is held to be the great 
_ specific in dropsical cases. 
BETHLEHEM STAR. (1) Correspondents in 
various parts of Somerset, Dorset, and Wilts. 
give me this as a local name for the Cineraria. 
(2) A correspondent at Brompton Regis gives 
it as a local name for the St. John’s Wort, 
Hypericum. 
BIBLE LEAF. (1) A correspondent at Stockland 
(Devon) gives this as a local name for the St. John’s 
Wort, Hypericum. 
(2) Another Devonshire correspondent at 
Buckerell, near Honiton, gives it as a local name 
for the Wood Spurge, Huphorbia amygdaloides. 
Bippys-EyYeEs. A very general name in Somer- 
set for the small Wild Pansy or Heartsease, Viola 
arvensis. ‘* Biddy ”’ means a chick. 
Biecoty Lapy. A correspondent at Ever- 
ereech gives me this as a local name for the 
Balsem or Touch-me-not, Impatiens Noli-me- 
tangere. Both the popular and the scientific 
names of the plant have reference to the remark- 
able way in which its ripe seed pods burst with 
great violence on the slightest touch and scatter 
the seeds to quite a long distance. 
BIGOLD. A correspondent at Watchet gives 
me this as a local name for the Corn Marigold, 
Chrysanthemum segetum. The name is an old 
English one, and generally obsolete. It is very 
interesting if it still survives to any extent in 
West Somerset. 
BILBERRY. Quite a general name for the 
Whortleberry, Vaccinium Myrtillus. 
Britt Burton. The Water Avens, Geum 
rivale (S.W. Wilts). 
BILLERS. A name given in Devonshire to the 
flowers of any large umbelliferous plant, such as 
Cow-parsnip, Chervil, &. Known as BULLERS 
in West Somerset. 
Bitty Busters. Mr. H. A. Bending, of Shos- 
combe (near Bath) gives me this as a Joeal name 
for “Bladder Campion, Silene Cucubalus. 
BILLy Buttons. This name is given to a 
variety of plants in different districts. 
(1) In Devon it is applied to the flower-heads 
of the Burdock, Arctiwm majus, from the way in 
which they adhere to the clothing, and boys often 
stick them down the front of their coat or throw 
them lightly against the clothing of other persons, 
_ to which they sling. 
