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DEVON EAVER OR EvvER. Ry Grass, Lolium 
perenne. A name in use move especially amongst 
Somerset farmers. 
DEVON PRIDE. A correspondent gives me this 
name for the Red Spur Valerian, Kentranthus 
ruber. 
DEW-BERRY. A large kind of Blackberry, 
having fewer fruitiets and a more acid taste, and 
more juicy than the ordinary kind, growing on a 
low bramble, Rubus cesius. Mr. V. W. Cowan 
tells me tbe name should properly be DOvE- 
BERRY, from the colour of its fruit; and it is 
known by the equivalent of this name in Germany 
and other countries. Mr. W. S. Price says “‘ The 
berries always appear cloudy instead of bright 
as in the Blackberry, as if they were covered with 
mist ov dew—hence the oame.”’ 
+ Dr. R. G. Knight writes :—“ The genus Rubus 
has, of course, ever been a s»are and a delusion, 
and I was pleasactly surprised receatly to find 
in conversation on the roadside near Axminster 
that evea local people realise this. The large 
juicy traits of one of the Rubi (I know not whivh, 
lat I know it well by its leaves, large drupes and 
early ripening) were described to me as ‘“‘. . . not 
hardly blackberries, more of a dewberry—growin’ 
in covers.”’ TTis, of veourse, is very sound 
observation. The blackberries are not found in 
covers—rather on hedges, whil t the dewberry 
end of the eries grows on low bushes in rough 
land, e.g., a recently coppiced cover. 
DEw-cup. <A Shaftesbury correspondent gives 
me this as a local name for the Buttercup. Possibly 
a corruption of DILL-cUP. 
DEW-DROoPS. <A correspondent at Muchelney 
gives me this as a local name for the Snowdrop, 
Galanthus nivalis. 
DEW OF THE SEA. Mrs. Lansdowne, of Over 
Stowey, gives me this as a local name for the 
Rosemary, Rosmarinus officinalis. 
DEW-PLANT. A number of young people at 
Paulton give me this as a local name for the Ice- 
plant, by which I assume they mean Mesembry- 
anthemum crystallinum, which is frequently called 
DEW-PLANT. It is a diffusely prostmbent her- 
baceois plant of the Fig-marigold fanily, popular 
oa acsourt of its cu io.s large ovate wavy leaves, 
covered with large glittering papwlae oa every 
part, which glisten like ice in the s nshine, and 
acco..nt for its popular rames. 
Dicky .Birps. (1) Seeds of the Sycamor 
Acer Pseudo-platanus. 
(2) Common Fumitory, Fumaria officinalis 
(S.W. Wilts). 
he rea Birp’s Bitu. Cranesbill, Geranium 
aulton). 
