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HYPocRITES. This is sent me from Combe St. 
Nicholas as a local name for Dog Violets. Compare 
DECEIVER. 
IcE-PLANT. (1) The common name for all 
varieties of J/esembryanthemum.especially MV. cryst- 
allium. 
(2) Applied also to other plants with fleshy 
leaves, especially to such as are glossy or look 
as though they had hoar-frost on them, such as 
Houseleeks, Stonecrops, &c. From several parts 
of Somerset Ihave had this sent me asa local 
name for the Stonecrop, Sedum. 
(3) The Pennywort, Cotyledon Umbilicus- 
Veneris (Awliscombe). 
INDIAN CREss. A general English name for the 
Nasturtium. 
INDIAN PINK. Dianthus chinensis ; sometimes 
called FRENCH PINK and CHINESE PINK. 
INDIAN Poppy. My Watchet correspondent 
gives me this as a local name for the 
(1) Mountain Poppy, Meconopsis cambrica, and 
the 
(2) Yellow Horned Poppy, Glaucium flavum. 
INDIAN SHOT. The general English name for 
the genus Canna. 
INGUN. Onion (F. T. Elworthy). 
ININ. Onion (Jennings). 
INING (pronounced Eye-ning). Onion (West 
Pennard). 
INNION. Onion. 
The late G. P. R. Pulman says: ‘“ The country- 
man illustrates the diversity of mental and mora] 
characteristics in this way :— 
Def’ernce in taste as in opinion, 
Zum lik’ a apple an’ zum a innion. 
INNOCENT. (1) Lily of the Valley, Con- 
vallaria majalis (Miss Ella Ford, Melplash). 
(2) Daisy, Bellis perennis (from a school-girl 
at Castle Cary). 
Mr. T. W. Cowan, F.L.S., tells me that in 
Northamptonshire this term applied to flowers 
means small and pretty. 
TRoN FLOWER. A _ school-boy at Winscombe 
gives me this as a loca] name for the Broad-leaved 
Garlic, Allium ursinum. 
TRon PEAR. White Beam, Pyrus Aria. Iron 
Pear Tree Farm, near Devizes, is said to take its 
name from this tree. (N.W. Wilts). 
TRoN WEED. Greater Knapweed, Centaurea 
Scabiosa, and Lesser (or Black) Knapweed, C. 
nigra. Iron-hard, Yronhard (Gerarde), old Eng. 
Isenhearde, name for Centaurea nigra, corruption 
of Iron-head, another popular name for the same 
(Prior). Gerarde gives !ronhard for Knapweed, 
