10g 
FLOWER OF AN Hour. Sevei.l correspondents 
send me this aS a aame fo: the Mallow, Malva 
sylvesiris. This would appear to be due to con- 
fusion. Rev. H. Friend says :—‘‘ Another species 
of Hibiscus is the Venice Mallow, which is a 
native of Italy and Austria, bears a purple and 
yellow flower, and has long been known in our 
English gardens as Mallow of an Hour or Good 
Night at Moon.” 
FLOWER OF BRISTOWE (i.e. Bristol). An old 
name for the cultivated Scarlet Lychnis or 
** Nonesuch,” Lychnis chalcedonica. The Bristol 
Naturalists’ Society’s Proceedings for the year 
1909 (pub. 1910) contained a most interesting 
paper with regard to this plant and the origin 
of its local name by Miss Ida M. Roper, F.L.S. 
1 understand that shortly after the publication 
of this paper the then new University of Bristol 
adopted this flower as its emblem. 
FLOWER OF SPRING. (1) Several young people in 
different parts of Somerset send me this as a 
popalar name for the Daisy, Bellis perennis. 
(2) In view of the above it is perhaps worth 
recording that the Primrose has the honour of 
being called the “‘ Flower of Spring” in nearly 
a dozen different Janguages. 
FLOWER OF THE AX#. The Rev. Hil teric 
Friend gives this as a name applied by the 
country people about Axminster to the rare 
Lobelia urens, which, he tated, is found in 
Britain only near that town, but several corres- 
pondents tellme it is found also in Dorset and 
Co nwall. 
FLOWER OF THE SUN. A correspondent at 
Camerton gives me this as a local name fo. the 
Myrtle, Myrius communis. 
FLUE BRuUsHES. A correspondent at Mells 
gives me this as a local name for the Great Reed- 
mace, Typha latifolia, more often called BULRUSH. 
FLUFF WEED. Great Mullein, Verbascum 
Thapsus (Stalbridge). 
Fiurry Buttons. A Taunton boy, attending 
Sexey’s School, gives me this as a Taunton name 
for the Sallow. Dr. Watson says ‘ Both Saliz 
caprea and S. cinerea are almost certainly meant.’”’ 
FLourry Purry. Mrs. Lansdowne, of Over 
Stowey, gives me this as a local name for the 
seed-head of the Dandelion, Taraxacum officinale, 
Fity ANGELS or Fty-aways. <A Yeovil school- 
boy gives me these as local names for the seeds of 
the Sycamore, Acer Pseudo-platanus. See FLYING 
ANGELS. 
FiLy CATcHER. (1) A number of young people 
in the Axminster district give me this as a local 
name for the Sundew, Drosera. 
