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Keret Lecs. A Sherborne correspondent gives 
me this as a local name for the Early Purple 
Orchis, Orchis mascula. I have never known this 
as a local name, but Dr. R. C. Knight tells me 
it is given to this Orchis in Kent. It is also 
applied in that county to O. morio. Sometimes 
used in the form SKEET-LEGS. 
KELP. Seaweed. Always so called—aiter a 
storm great quantities are often washed ashore ; 
this is gathered up and used for manure (F. T. 
Elworthy). 
Kem™ick. The Rest-harrow, Ononis repens. 
See CAMMICK and KAMICS. 
Mr. F. T. Elworthy gives this as a West Somerset 
word meaning a flax-field, and says it is rather a 
common name of a field. 
Kers. Several correspondents send this as a 
lecal pronunciation of Cress, in connection with 
which Mr. T. W. Cowan, F.L.S., kindly points 
out that Kerse was the Anglo-Saxon name for 
Water-cress, and quotes :— 
‘* Men witen welle whiche hath the werse, 
And so to me nis worth a Kerse.’’ 
(Gower, M.S., Soe. Autiq.). 
KERSLING. White Bullace (Devon). 
KERSLINS. Small Wild Plums: egalled also 
CRISLINGS (West Somerset). 
KeEsTIn. A Wild Plum, Prunus insilitia (West 
Somerset). See BULLACE. 
KETTLE CASES. The Spotted Orchis, O. 
maculata (Sturminster Newton). 
KETTLES AND CROcKS. ‘The seeds of the Box, 
Buzus sempervirens (East Mark). 
KETTLE Smocks. (1) Mr. Edward Vivian 
(Trowbridge) gives me this as a common local 
name for the small Bindweed, Convolvulus 
arvensis. 
(2) A Stogursey correspondent applies it to 
the Periwinkle, Vinca, to which I have also heard 
it applied in other districts. 
(3) Mr. W. C. Baker, late of Maunsel, gives it 
as a local name for the Red Campion, Lychnis 
dioica. 
(4) A correspondent at Chilton Polden applies 
the name to the Woodbine, Lonicera’ Pericly- 
menum. 
Kex. (1) The dried hollow stalks of certain 
plants, especially Cow-Parsnip and Hemlock. 
See Grx and KEcKS. 
(2) The Wild Carrot, Daucus Carota (Dorset). 
See Cax. 
KEXIES. Hemlock, Conium maculatum (Wells). 
See Kex. (1). 
KEYBALL. A Fircone. 
