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as used in Somerset, Norfolk, and Suffolk to 
describe a blustering, swaggering fellow. Mr. T. 
W. Cowan ,F.L.S., tells me it is the name of a 
species of Pear used in making perry, and that in 
Herefordshire the name Hurr Cap is given to 
Couch-grass. 
Hucey Mg CiLose. A correspondent gives me 
this as a Dorset name for the Goose-grass, Galium 
Aparine. According to Holloway, the name is 
used in Somerset for a fowl’s merry-thought. 
Huitm. Holly, Ilex Agquifolium (Odcombe). 
See HoLm. 
Hvutver. An old name for Holly. Hulfere, 
A.S. for Holly, cecurs in Chaucer. 
Humacks. Wild-briar stocks, on which to graff 
Roses (Rev. W. P. Williams). See HEWMACK. 
FLIUMBLE-BEE FLOWER. Bee Orchis, Ophrys 
apifera (Chetnole). 
Hump-spacks. A Hatch Beauchamp name for 
the Violet—presumably from the way the stalk 
bends near the flower. 
Humpy-ScRUMPLES. Cow-parsnip, Heracleum 
Sphondylium (Devon). 
HUNDREDS AND THOUSANDS. (1) Ivy-leaved 
Toadflax, Linaria Cymbalaria. 
(2) House-leek, Sempervivum tectorum. 
(3) Virginian Steck, Malcolmia maritima. 
(4) London Pride, Saxifraga umbrosa. 
(5) + eruvian Heliotrope, Heliotropium peru- 
vianum (Camerton). 
(6) The seeds of the common Sorrel, Rumex 
Acetosa. 
HuntTERS. Seeds of the common Sorrel, Rumes 
Acetosa (Stoke-under-Ham). ? A corruption of 
‘‘ Hundreds.” 
Hurre Burr. The Burdock, Arctium minus. 
HURTLEBERRY. The Whortleberry, Vaccinium 
Myrtillus. 
Hurts. A contracted form of HURTLEBERRY 
(see above); apparently a corruption of the 
A.S. heorotberige, the “ hartberry,’’ from heorot 
or heort = a heart. T. Fuller, in his Worthies, 
Devonshire, says ‘‘ Hurlberries, in  Latine 
Vaccinia, most wholesome to the stomach, but 
of a very astringent nature; so plentiful in this 
Shire that it is a kind of Harvest to poor people.” 
Hurt SicktE. The Cornflower or Blue-bottle, 
Centaurea Cyanus, ‘ because,’ says Culpepper, 
“ with its hard wiry stem it turneth the edge of 
‘the sickle that reapeth the corn.” 
HyactntH. A well-informed correspondent at 
Watchet gives me this as a local name for the 
Yellow Flag, Iris Pseudacorus, but it is not easy 
to understand. 
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