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ARB RABBITS or ARBROBERT. A _ corruption 
of the name Herb Robert, the common Wild 
Geranium, Geranium Robertianum. The late Mr. 
F. T. Elworthy quotes a man as saying ‘‘ We 
calls em sparrow-birds, but the proper name’s 
ARB RABBITS.” 
ARCHANGEL. (1) The Yellow Dead Nettle or 
Weasel Snout, Lamium Galeobdolon. Also aprlied 
to ; 
(2) The White ‘Dead Nettle, Zamiwmn album ; 
and 
(3) The Red Dead Nettle, Lamium purpureum. 
(4) The garden Angelica, Archangelica 
officinalis. 
ARRIsH. A stubble of any kind after the crop 
is gone. 
ARROW Rot. Mr. H. A. Bending, of Shoscombe 
(near Bath) gives this as one of the names applied 
in that district to the Cow-parsnip or Eltrot, 
Heracleum Sphondylium. It is obviously a 
corruption of ALDERTROT, which see. 
ARROW Root. The Wild Arum or Cuckoo-pint, 
Arum maculatum. So called from the fact that 
Portland sago or arrowsoot was made from the: 
tubers of this plant. 
ARSE-SMART. Water Pepper, Polygonum hydro- 
piper. The plant owes its local name to. the 
irritating effect of its leaves. 
ARTs. A name used in South-West Wilts and 
some parts of Hast Somerset for the Whortle- 
berry, Vaccinium Myrtilivs, known in West 
Somersct as ‘‘ Worts.”” A correspondent at 
Donhead writes: ‘‘ The Semley end of Donhead 
Cliff grows ‘arts’ in abundance, and. is called 
‘“A-t Hill.’ The Ordnance Survey map has 
corrected (?) this into ‘ Hart Hill,’ but ‘ Art Hill’ 
is its proper name. A local industry is to go 
“arting ’ in the proper season ofthe year.”’ 
ASS-SMABT. Sce ARSE-SMART. . 
AsH CANDLES or ASH KEys. © The seed vessels © 
of the Ash ‘Tree, Fraxinus excelsior. 
ASH-WEED or ACH-WEED.: An old, but still fairly 
generalnameforthecommon Goutweed, gopodium 
Podagaria, of which Culpepper says ‘“‘ Neither is 
it to be supposed Goutweed hath its name for 
nothing ; but upon experiment to heal the gout 
and sciatica; as also joint-aches and other cold 
griefs. The very bearing of which about one ° 
easeth the paio of the gout, and defends him that ~ 
bears it from the disease.” , 
AsHY PoKER. A Tisbury correspondent gives 
this as a local name for the Hoary Plantain, 
Plantago media. . 
Aunt Betsy. A Watchet correspondent tells 
me that the: “‘ Crane’s bill’—he does not say 
which of the Crane’s bills—is called by this name 
