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name for the pink variety of Violet. 
(2) An Evercreech school-boy tells me the 
name is given in that district to the Dog Violet, 
Viola canina. 
Gipsy’s Baccy. (1) Two _ school-boys at 
Evercreech give me this as a local name for the 
Common Sorrel or Sour-dock, Rumex Acetosa. 
(2) A correspondent at Corfe Mullen (Dorset) 
gives it as a local name for the Wood Sage, 
Teucrium Scorodonia. 
Gipsy’s BRIDE. A correspondent at Winsham 
gives me this as a local name for the Fuchsia. 
Gipsy’s CURTAINS. Common Hemlock, Conium 
maculatum (Ilminster). 
Gipsy’s FLOWER. Several young people at 
Oakhill give me this as a local name for the ** Wild 
Sweet Pea,’ by which they probably mean the 
Wild Everlasting Pea, Lathyrus sylvestris. 
Gipsy’s GIBBLES. Garlic, Allium ursinum 
(Doulting). “ Gibbles > or. “Chipples” is a 
well-known Somerset name for young onions, 
and is here applied to the Garlic on account of its 
onion-like smell. 
Gipsy’s Har. Lesser Bindweed, Convolvulus 
arvensis (Stoke-under-Ham). 
Gipsy’s Lack( or Lacks). Cow-parsnip or 
Hogweed, Heracleum Sphondy ium (Yeovil). 
Gipsy’s Money. The Marsh Marigold, Caltha 
palustris (Thurlbear). 
Gipsy’s OnIons. Garlic, A'’liim ursinum. 
Gipsy’s ParsLEy. (1) A correspondent at 
Thurlbear gives this as a local name for the Wild 
Beaked Parsley, Anthriscus sylvestris. 
(2) A correspondent at Hatch Beauchamp 
gives it as a local name for the Herb Robert, 
Geranium Robertianum. 
Gipsy’s RHUBARB. (1) The Burdock, Arctium 
majus. 
(2) The Butter-bur, Petasites ovatus. 
Gipsy’s SAGE. Wood Sage, Teucrium Scoro- 
donia (Melplash, Dorset). 
Gipsy’s Soap. A correspondent at Chelborough 
(Dorset) gives me this as a local name for the 
Knotted Figwort. Scrophularia nodosa. Dr. 
Downes writes ‘‘ More probably the Soapwort, 
Saponaria officinalis, the leaves of which were 
formerly used as a substitute for soap.” See 
SOAP-I HAVES. 
Gipsy’s Topacco. (1) A Dorchester lady 
gives me this as a local name for the Wild Clematis 
or Traveller’s Joy, Clematis Vitalba, of which 
the dried stems are smoked by school-boys. 
Murray, in his ‘‘ Flora of Somerset,” states that 
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