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plant on account of the shape and the rough 
surface of its leaves. 
(2) The Rev. Hilderic Friend says that in 
Devon the Forget-me-not, Myosotis scorpioides, is 
called BUG-LOss. 
BuGs anD FLEAS. A correspondent at Brad- 
ford-on-Tone gives this as a local name for the 
Wild Dock. 
BuLuAceE. A Wild Plum, the fruit of Prunus 
insititia, very akin to the Sloe, but botanists 
make slight distinctions between the two. In 
Turner’s Herbail (1562) we read ‘‘] never saw 
in ail my lyfe more plenty of. . .  . bulles trees 
than in Sommersetshyre.’’ See CHRISTIANS. Mr. 
FF. W. Mathews, of Bradford-on-Tone, writes 
‘““The Bullace, or Kestin, is twice as large as a 
Sloe, and makes good eating, which a wild Sloe 
most decidedly never does.”’ 
Butt Cup. The Marsh Marigold, Caltha 
palustris (Thorne St. Margaret). 
BULL-DISTLE. The Spear Plume Thistle, 
Cnicus lanceolatus (West Somerset). 
Butt Docs. Mrs. H. Day, of North Petherton, 
gives me this as a name for the Snapdragon, 
Antirrhinum majus. 
BULLEN. Large Black Sloes; Bullace-plum, 
Prunus insititia.—Rev. W. P. WILLIAMs. 
Buuuers. The flowers of any umbelliferous 
plants, such as Chervil, Cow Parsnip, &c. Pro- 
nounced BILLERS in Devonshire. 
BULL-FLOWER. The Marsh Marigold, Caltha 
palustris. It has been suggested that the name is 
a corruption of ‘* Pool-flower.”’ 
BuLL HEADS. A Taunton correspondent gives 
this as a local name for the Knapweed, Centaurea 
nigra. 
Buuurns. A kind of Wild Plum (Holloway) ; 
Large Black Sloes (Jennings). The fiuit of 
Prunus insititia. <A'so called BULLIES. 
BuLuIsoN. Miss Audrey Vivian, of Trow- 
bridge, gives this as a common local name for the 
Bullace, Prunus insititia, or Sloe, P. spinosa. 
Buttocks. The Wild Arum or Cuckoo-pint, 
Arum maculatum (Stoke-under-Ham). 
BULLOCK’s EYE. A correspondent at Dunster 
gives this as a local name for the Houseleek, 
Sempervivum tectorum. I know this name is given 
to the plant in the North of England, but I am 
not aware that it is used in Somerset. 
Butt Rusu. (1) A number of young people 
at Muchelney tell me this name is given in that 
district to the Reed (? Phragmites communis). 
See BULRUSH. 
(2) A correspondent at East Harptree gives 
this as a lecal name for the Teasel, Dipsacus 
sylvestris. 
