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BOTANICAL’ 
GARDEN 
POPULAR NAMES 
FLOWERS, FRUITS, &c., 
As used in the County of Somerset and the 
adjacent parts of Devon, Dorsst and Wilts. 
rf AARON’S BEARD. (1) The targe flowered St. 
John’s Wort, Hypericum calycinum; so named 
from the bundles of stamens, which have a very 
beard-like appearance. Commonly calle?! ‘* Ro e 
of Shar n.”’ 
(2) A white-flowered plant of Chinese origin, 
Saxifraga sarmentosa, largely grown in the West 
of England in pots, and known by a variety of 
names, including Spider-piant and Strawberry 
plant, from the way in which the young plants 
hang on their runners over the sides of the flower 
pot. Othe” Iccal n: mes are Moth:r cf Th usands, 
Greeping Sailo , Old Ma .’s B ard, and Wandering 
Jew 
(3) In N.W. Wilts the heads of the Crow 
Garlic Allium vineale, with the stiff young leaves 
growing out of the bulbils. 
A correspondent at Compton (between 
Yeovil and Sherborne) informs me that the name . 
is given in that district to the Monkshood, Aconi- 
tum Napellus. 
AARON’S FLANNEL. Great Mulleir, Verbascum 
Thapsus (Melplash, Dorset). 
_ AARON’S PRIDE. London Pride, Saxifraga 
umbrosa. I have this name only from the Head- 
master o° Sexey’s Sch o', who received it from a 
Clevedon !ad. 
AARON’S Rov. Fairly general name for (1) 
Great Mullein, Verbascum Thapsus 
- (2) Common Golden Rod, Solidago Virgaurea. 
(3) The various garden varieties of Tritoma 
or Kniphofia, more commonly known as Red Hot 
Poker or Flame flower. 
(4) Several correspendents give the name as 
being applied to Common Agrimony, Agrimonia 
EBupatoria. 
ABBEY. A Somerset name for the Great White 
Poplar, Populus alba. <A corruption of the Dutch 
name Abeel, which was introduced with the tree 
from Holland in Evelyn’s time. 
ABELE 0: ABLE TREE. The White Poplar as 
above. : 
