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The name Brook LIME is frequently given in 
Somerset (in errcr) to 
(1) The Water Pimpernel or Brookweed, 
Samolus Valerandi. 
(2) The Rev. R. P. Murray says that in the 
Wincanton district the name is given to the 
Procumbent Marshwort, Apium nodiflorum, often 
called Fool’s Watercress or Cow-cress. I am 
indebted to Dr. Watson for the following note :— 
““Some of the names are undoubted misnomers, 
which one must be careful not to perpetuate, e.g, 
Brook Lime for Brook Weed is a lIceal error 
almost certainly due to similarity of sound, and 
I should expect that the name when given to 
Marshwort is due to a mistake. Brook Lime, 
Marshwort, and Water-cress are almost invariable 
asseciates in ditches, and I have often heard the 
Marshwort miscalled Brook Lime, but when the 
mistake was pointed out the observer realised 
the mistake. The mistake was probably origin- 
ally due to the real plant being pointed out as 
Brook Lime, but as the other was mixed with it 
the observer confused the two.”’ 
Broom. (1) The real Broom, with its masses 
of golden pea-shaped flowers, is Cytisus scoparius, 
but a correspondeat at Axminster gives ‘‘ Broom ’’ 
as a local name for the Heather, Calluna vulgaris. 
The explanation of the name is no doubt that 
gZiven under BISSOM. 
(2) Mies. Day, of North Petherton, and 
correspondents at Brompton Regis tell me that 
this name is given in those districts to the commo . 
Furze or Gorse, Ulex europevs. Dr. Watson 
writes, ‘‘ The application of Broom to Ling and 
Furze is also due to confusion, and so far as I 
knew is very local.” 
BROOMS AND BRUSHES. A correspondent at 
Evershot (Dorset) gives me this as a local name 
for the Wild Cornflower (? Centaurea nigra. or 
Centaurea Cyanus). 
BROOZE; OR BROvUSSE. Brushwood. (Bradford- 
on-Tone). 
Brown Back. The Common Ceterach or 
Sealy Spleenwort (fern) of our walls, Ceterach 
officinarum ; moce often called RUSTYBACK in 
Somerset from the brown scales on the under 
surface of its fronds. 
BROWNET. A_ contraction of BROWN-WORT, 
which see. 
BROWN SuGAR. Given me by a correspondent 
at Chew Magna as a local name for the common 
Sorrel or Sour-dock, Rumex Acetosa. 
BrRown-worr. (1) Water Figwort, Scro- 
phularia aquatica. 
(2) Knotted Figwort, Scrophularia nodosa. 
(3) The name is often given to the Selfkeal, 
Prunella vulgaris. Dr. Prior says ‘“‘trom its 
