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DapDDyY’s BEARD OR DApDDY’S WHISKERS. 
Variations of the above name received irom 
other parts of the district. 
DapDpy WHITEH-SHIRT. A correspondent at 
Chaffcombe gives me this as a local name for the 
Hedge Bindweed or Convolvulus, Calystegia 
sepium. 
DAFFY AND Darry-DowNn-DILLy. Names very 
generally used by children for the Daffodil, 
Narcissus Pseudo-Narcissus. 
Darr BERRIES. The fruit of the Deadly 
Nightshade, Atropa Belladonna, which is highly 
poisonous. 
DAGGER FLOWER. The Iris, both the Yellow, 
Iris Pseudacorus, and the Blue, or Stinking, 
I. foetidissima. 
DAGGERS. (1) The broad straight leaves of 
the common Iris or Flag. 
(2) Correspondents at Over Stowey give this 
as a local name for the Wild Crocus (? Colchicum 
autumnale). 
(3) Rev. Hilderic Friend says “‘ In Somerset to 
a coarse wde-leaved grass usually known as 
‘sword-grass’ or ‘withers’—Poa aquatica ”’ 
(Glyceria aquatica of the London catalogue). 
DaIsIEs. A correspondent at Furley gives this 
as a local name for the Ragwort, Senecio Jacobea. 
Date Cup. (1) Buttercups of various species. 
(2) Marsh Marigold, Caltha palustris. Com- 
pare Di~L Cup. 
DAMSEL. (1) Damson. Mr. Elworthy S@YS : 
“Very common ; by some individuals always so 
called.”’ 
(2) Rev. Hilderic Friend spells it DAMZEL and 
says the name is ‘ Vaguely applied to the fruit 
of Prunus spinosa and other large Species both 
black and yellow.”’ 
DANCING LADY. The Fuchsia. 
DANDELION. This name is frequently given 
erroneously to the Hawkhbit, Coltsfoot, and other 
yellow flowers of the Dandelion family, 
DANDY GOSsLINGS. (1) Early Purple Orchis, 
Orchis mascula (N.W. Wilts). 
(2) Green-Winged Orchis, O. morio (S.W. 
Wilts). 
DANDY GussET. This is sent me by a corres- 
pondent at Dowlish Wake as a local name for the 
Marsh Orchis, Orchis latifolia. 
DANE Batt. Dwarf Elder, Sambucus Ebulus 
DANE’s Buoop. (1) The Dwarf Elder, Sam- 
bucus Ebulus. In Aubrey’s Wilts, M.S., Royal 
Soc. p 120 we read :— Dann’s BLoop (Ebulus) 
about Slaughtonford, is plenty. There was here- 
tofore a great fight with the Danes, which made 
