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Robert, Geranium Robertianum. “A number of 
correspondents in the Chard and S.E. Devon 
districts give the somewhat similar name DoLLy’s 
APRON for the same plant. 
BaBy’s RatTrie. (1) Yellow Rattle, Rhin- 
anthus Crista-galli. 
(2) Common Bugle, Ajuga reptans. 
(3) A correspondent at Axminster gives this 
as a local name for the crested Cow-wheat, 
Melampyrum cristatum, but I think it possible 
there is some confusion in that district between 
this plant and the Yellow Rattle (see 1 above), as 
I gather both names are given rather freely to 
either of the two plants. 
Basy’s SHoxrs. (1) Common Bugle, Ajuga 
reptans (S.W. Wilts). 
(2) Columbine, Aquilegia vulgaris (Mucheiney). 
Baccy. Plantain, Plantago. The stringy ieaves 
are supposed to bear some resemblance to tobacco 
(Keinton Mandeville). 
Baccy Lamps. The catkins of the Hazel, 
Corylus Avellana (Mells). See Baa Lamps’ Tats. 
Baccy Pant. Coltsfoot, Tussilago Farfara. 
This aame has been sent me by one South Pether- 
ton correspondent only, but the name is pro- 
bably not uncommon in view of the facts that 
for nearly 2,000 years the plant has been smoked 
through a reed to relieve pain, and the leaves 
are said to form the basis of the British herb 
tobacco. 
BACHELOR’s Buttons. A name which has 
been applied to a large number of flowers chiefly 
on account of their button-like shape and appear- 
ance. Dr. Prior says the name is given to several 
flowers ‘‘from their similitude to the jagged 
cloathe buttons, antiently worne in this king- 
dom” according to Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 472, 
but ascribed by other wiiters to “a habit of 
country fellows to carry them in their pockets 
to divine their success with their sweethearts.” 
Britten gave a list of 17 plants so named, 
but he did not by any means exhaust their 
number. Rev. Hilderic Friend gives eight plants 
to which the name is applied in Devon, but he 
does not include either of the two plants to which 
I have found it most frequently given in Somer- 
set, viz :— 
(1) Greater Stitchwort, Stellaria Holostea. 
(2) Marsh Mavcigold, Caltha palustris. 
(3) Mr. Friend includes Field Scabious, 
Scabiosa arvensis, in his Devon list, but says the 
name is given more frequently to this plant in 
Somerset than in Devon. 
(4) Perhaps the plant to which the name is 
most frequently applied in the West of England 
is the Common Feverfew, Chrysanthemum 
Parthenium. 
