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BREAK BASIN. A number of coreespondents 
in the Chard and Ea-t Devon districts give this 
as a local name for the Geimander Speedwell, 
Veronica Chamedrys, more generally known as 
BirnpD’s-EYES. The name is probably due to the 
petals all filling off together very quickly after 
the flower is picked, thus breaking the basin. 
See SPEEDWELL. 
BrReAK JACK. Miss Ella Ford, of Melplash 
(Dorset), gives me this 1s a local name for the 
Lesser Stitechwort. Stellaria graminea. Compare 
SNAP-JACK. 
BREAKSTONE. Any plant of the Saxifrage 
family, Saxifraga. An old Latin name used by 
Pliny. derived from saxum, a rock.and frango, to 
break, so called because it was supp*sed to break 
stones in the bladder. 
BRIDAL WREATH. (1) Francoa ramosa, a 
plant bearing long 1ac2mes of small white flowers. 
(2) The name is sometimes given in South 
Somerset to Campanula pyramidalis. 
BRIDE CAKE. A correspondent at Stratton- 
on-the-Fosse sends me this as the local name for 
a flower which she believes to be an Avrabis. 
BricHt Eye. Germander Speedwell, Veronica 
Chamedrys, more commonly cilled BIRD’s-EYE 
(Melis and Brompton Regis). 
BRIMBLE or BRIMMLE. Bramble, Rubus fruticosus. 
Here again the despised dialect remains true, while 
the literary dialect is the corrupt (from Anglo- 
Saxon, Bremel). 
BristoL Rock CREss. The usual English 
name of the rare plant Arabis stricta, only found 
near Bristol, but Mr. W. D. Miller tells me it has 
been introduced at Wembdon and elsewhere. A 
correspondent at Leigh-on-Mendip tells me this 
name is applied in that district to the common 
rcekery plant, generaJly known as ‘“‘ Snow on the 
Mountain ’’—by which is probably meant Arabis 
scabra or A. albida, or Kaniga (formerly Alyssum) 
maritima, ® 
BRoAD GRASS. Common Red Clover, Trifolium 
pratense (Dorset). 
BroaD WEED. The Cow-parsnip, Heracleum 
Sphondylium (Dorset). 
Brockio. A very common pronunciation of 
BROccoLi in East and West Somerset and West 
Wilts. 
Brook Lime. This is the general English 
name fer Veronica Beccabunga. Mr. T. W. Cowan 
tells me it is a corruption of the older names, 
Broklembe, Broklemp, Broclempe, as if it was so 
called from growing in the lime or mud (Lat. 
limus) of brooks. Markham (1637) spells the word 
Brockelhempe, as if it equalled ‘ brittle-hemp.”’ 
