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BULLS AND Cows. The Wild Arum or Cuckoo 
Pint, Arum maculatum (Furley, Wells, and Metls). 
Buuu’s Eyres. (1) Throughout a large part of 
Somerset, Dorset, and Devon this is a very 
general name for the Marsh Marigold, Caltha 
palustris. 
(2) In some parts of Somerset and South 
Devon this name is given to the Red Campion, 
Lychnis dioica, but it is not so often used in the 
latter county as ‘* Pocr Robin ”’ or “ Bird’s-eye.”’ 
(3) Yellow Water Lily, Nymphea lvtea (Wells 
and Leigh, Dorset). 
(4) Ox-eye Daisy, Chrysanthemum Leucanthe- 
mum (Castle Cary). 
(5) Mr. W. C. Baker (late of Maunsel) gives 
this as a local name for the St. John’s Wort, 
Hypericum. 
(6) Several young people at Ailer give it as a 
local name for the Common Poppy. Papaver 
Rheas. 
(7) A correspondent at Shute (Devon) gives 
it as a leeal name for the Mallow, Malva sylvestris. 
Buu's Foor. Correspondents at North 
Petherton and Hawkchurch (Devon) give me this 
as a loeal nam? for the Colt’s foot, Tussilage 
Farfara. Rev. Hilderic Friend quotes the name, 
but implies it is not commonly used. 
BULL’s PARSLEY. A correspondent at Combe 
St. Nicholas gives me this as a local name for the 
** Wild Parsley.”? (Probably Caucalis Anthrise.s). 
Buuut THISTLE. (1) This name is apparently 
applied to different thistles in different parts of 
the county, but most generally to the Spear 
Plum? Thistle, Cnicrs lanceolatus. See Boar- 
DISTLE. 
(2) The Marsh Plume Thistle, Cnicus palustris. 
(3) Mrs. Day, of North Petherton, gives me 
this as a local name for the Black Knapwecd, 
Centaurea nigra. 
Buttum. Wild Plum or Bullace, fruit of 
Prunus insititia (Devon). 
BULLY HEADS. Common Knapweed, Centaurea. 
nigra (Stogursey). 
BuLrose. Britten and Holland say that J. 
R. Pulman gives this as the pronunciation cf 
BELL-ROSE, which see. 
ButrusH. The Bulrush of the botanist is 
Scirpus lacustris, but the name is probably not 
often applied to that plant by the ordinary 
inhabitants of Somerset. The name is far more 
generally given to :— 
(1) The Great Reed-mace, Typha latifolia, 
which owes its English name to the fact that it is. 
this reed which appears in the “‘ Ecce hemo” 
pictures and familiar statues of Jesus as His mace 
or sceptre. 
