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BADGER’S FLOWER. Broad-leaved Garlic, 
Allium ursinum (N.W. Wilts). 
BALDMONEY, BAWDMONEY, or BADMONEY. The 
Spignel Mew, Meum Athamanticum, one of the 
umbelliferous plants. Dr. Prior gives the 
derivation of the name as a corruption of the 
Latin valde bona—-‘‘ exceedingly good ’”’; but Sir 
‘Wm. Hooker considers it a corruption of Balder, 
the Apollo of the North, to whom the plant was 
dedicated. 
BALLAMS. Correspondents at Bridgwater give 
me this as a local name for the Sloe or fruit ot 
Prunus insititia. 
BALM OF GILEAD. Wild Balm, Melittis Melie- 
sophyllum (Wilts). 
BALM OF THE WARRIOR’S WOUND. Perforated 
St. John’s Wort, Hypericum perforatum. The 
aame is due to the fact that the flowers of this 
plant were very extensively used for many years 
in the preparation of an ointment remarkable 
for its healing properties. 
BAME. The West Somerset pronunciation of 
Balm, Melissa officinalis. 
BANEWORT. The Deadly Nightshade, Atropa 
Belladonna. 
Bango LBAVES. Leaves of Plantain, Plantago 
(Yeovil). 
BAN-NUT. The Walnut, Juglans regia. I 
believe this word is more particularly used in the 
North of Somerset and in Gloucester, but the 
Rev. W. P. Williams, of Bishop’s Hull, included it 
without comment in his glossary in 1873, and 
added the couplet :— 
A woman, a spaunel, and a bannut tree, 
The mooar you bate ’em the better they be. 
BARBED ARROWS AND FisH-HOOKS. A Taunton 
lady gives me this name for (presumably the seeds 
of) the Dandelion, Taraxacum officinale. 
BARBER’s BrRusH. A fairly common name in 
Somerset, Dorset, and Wilts for the Wild Teasel, 
Dipsacus sylvestris. 
BARREN STRAWBERRY. The Strawberry-leaved 
Cinquefoil, Potentilla sterilis, of which the leaf 
and flower are almost exactly like those of the 
Woodland Strawberry, but which is not a straw- 
berry, and bears no fruit in the popular sense. 
Children in some parts of Somerset give its 
blossoms the appropriate name of STORY-TELLERS. 
Base Rocker. Wild Mignonette, Reseda Inteola, 
so called from its rocket-like leaves, and its being 
used as a base in dyeing woollen cloths. Also 
called DYER’S WEED and WELD. 
BASSINET (7.e., “ little basin ’’). An old name 
for the Meadow Crowfoot, Ranunculus acris. 
BAsKETs. Ribwort Plantain, Plantago lanceo- 
lata (Little Langford, Wilts). 
