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HARVEST FLOWER. A correspondent at Chard 
gives me this as a local name for the Corn Marigold, 
Chrysanthemum segetum. 
HASKETTS. His Honour J. S. Udal gives this 
as a Dorset name for Hazel and Maple bushes. 
Hasty Rogsr. Miss Ida Roper, F.L.S., gives 
me this as a Devonshire name for the Nipple- 
wort ; see below. 
Hasty SARGEANT. The Nipplewort, Lapsana 
communis (East Somerset and North Dorset). 
HAvEs. Haws. The fruit of the Hawthorn 
(Dorset). 
Haw. A very general name for the fruit of 
the Hawthorn, Crategus monogyna. This name 
arose from the supposition, Prior says, that Haw- 
thorn was the plant which bears haws, whereas its 
name really implies the thorn which grows in the 
haw. hay. or hedge. A. Sax haga, hege. 
HaAy-MAIns (or MAIDENS). Ground Ivy, Nepeta 
hederacea. ‘‘ Hay” means hedge, and the “ hay- 
maidens’’ are the plants which grow in the 
hedges. Used for making a medicinal liquor, 
known as ‘‘ Hay-maiden tea.”’ 
HAYRIFF. (1) An old name for the Goose- 
grass or Cleavers; Galium Aparine. Mr. T. W. 
Cowan, F.L.S., tells me that in Glos. this plant is 
called HAIREVE, and in the north HarRup, 
HatRouGH, or Hay-R>vuGH, which are corrupt 
forms of harif. O.Eng. hayryf, A Sax hegerife, = 
hedge-reaver or robber from its habit of laying 
hold of anything that touches it. Gerard says it 
was called *‘of som Philanthropos, as though he 
should say, a man’s friend, bicause it taketh hold 
of mens garments.” Herbal p. 964. 
(2) Rev. Hilderic Friend says that although 
in all his works of reference this name is given 
to the Goose-grass, when he has held up the 
Meadow-sweet, Spirea Ulmaria, and asked its 
name, he has sometimes been told it is HAYRIFF. 
(3) Dr. Prior says the name was originally 
given to the Burdock, Arctium minus, but in his 
day to the Goose-grass. It comes from the A.S. 
hege = hedge, and reafa, which means both a tax- 
gatherer and a robber, and was given to the 
Burdock on account of its habit of plucking wool 
from passing sheep. \ 
(4) A correspondent iniorms me that in Dorset 
the name is given to the Black Bindweed, 
Polygonum Convolvulus. 
Hay-SHACKLE. Yellow Rattle, Rhinanthus 
Crista-galli. 
HEADACHE or HEADACHE FLOWER. (1) The 
Field Poppy, Papaver Rheeas ; from the effect of 
its odour. The poet Clare wrote 
Corn poppies that in crimson dwell, 
Called ‘‘ Headaches ” from their sickly smell. 
