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Jacky (or JACKyY’s) CHEESES. See JAck’s 
CHEESES. 
JACOB AND FAmiLy. Several young people at 
Cutcombe give me this as the lceal name of a 
flower which they can only describe as white and 
having 12 leaves. 
JACOB'S CHARIOT. An old country name for the 
Monkshood, Aconitum Napellus. 
JAcob’s LADDER. A name given to a number 
of different plants, but apparently mest gener- 
ally to 
(1) The Greek Valerian, Polemium cerileum 
or P. album; usually supposed to be so ealled 
from its successive pairs of leaflets. 
(2) The Gladiolus, both cultivated and wild. 
(3) The Larkspur, Delphinium Ajacis. 
(4) Solomon’s Seal, Polygonatum multi- 
florum. 
(5) The Snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus 
(Watchet). 
(6) The MHollyhock, Althea rosea (South 
Petherton). 
(7) The Lupin, Lupinus (Sampford Brett). 
(8) The Balsam, Impatiens J oli-tangere (Chet- 
nole). 
(9) A correspondent at Stalbridge gives it 
as a local name for the ‘‘ Spurge,” Euphorbia 
(? species). 
JAM TaRTS. (1) Herb Robert, Geranium 
Robertianum ; and 
(2) Dove’s-foot Crane’s-bill, Geranium molle. 
Both plants appear to be so named in the Crew- 
kerne and Chard district. 
(3) Common Fumitory, Fumaria officinalis 
(Corfe Mullen). 
JAN GRAMFER. Red Campion, Lychnis dioica 
(from correspondents at Taunton and Trowbridge). 
JAPANESE LANTERN. (1) Cape Gooseberry. 
See JACK IN A LANTERN. 
(2) Canterbury Bell, Campanula medium 
(Bradford-on-Tone). 
JAPANESE KosE. A correspondent at Compton 
(near Yeovil) gives me this as a local name for 
the Jew’s Mallow, Corchorus olitorius, or (C. 
capsilaris, the Jute Plant; an Asiatic plant 
of the Linden family. 
JAPANESE TEA Party. Miss Audrey Vivian, 
of Trowbridge, gives me this as a common name 
in that district for an Anemone, Anemone japonica, 
which grows in a semi-wild, or at least uncultivated 
condition, in her own and other gardens. 
JAUNDERS TREE. The common Barbary, 
Berberis vulgaris—trom the yellow colour of the 
wood (West Somerset). 
JAUNDICE BERRY. Sameas JAUNDERS TREE. 
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