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LApY’s BowkER. Wild Clematis or Traveller’s 
Joy, Clematis Vitalba ; more often celled VIRGIN’S 
BoweER. 
Lapy’s BRuUsH AND Coms. Common Teasel, 
Dipsacus sylvestris (Bradford-on-Tone). 
Lapy’s BrRusHES. Teasel, as above (Hast 
Mark). 
Lapy’s Burrons. Greater Stitchwort, Stel- 
laria Holostea. 
LapDy’s BuncH oF Keys. The Cowslip, 
Primula veris (Wiveliscombe). 
LADY’s CANDLE. Great Mullein, Verbascum 
Thapsus. See Hic TAPER. 
LApy’s CHAIN. Laburnum (particularly Dorset 
and Devon). More generally called GOLDEN 
CHAIN. 
Lapy’s CHEMISE. (1) Greater Convolvulus 
or Hedge Bindweed, Calystegia sepium. 
(2) Greater Stitchwort, Stellaria Holostea 
(Bruton and Wincanton). 
(3) Wood Anemone, Anemone nemorosa (Win- 
canton). 
LADY’s CLOAK. Cuckoo-flower, Cardamine 
pratensis (Sexey’s School). More generally called 
LApDY’s SMOCK. 
Lapy’s CusHion. (1) The Sea-pink or Thrift, 
Staiice maritima. 
(2) Kidney Vetch, Anthyllis Vulneraria (S.W. 
Wilts). 
(3) Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Lotus corniculatus 
(Wilts and Devon). 
LApyY’s EAR-DRoPS. (1) A very general name 
for the Fuchsia. 
(2) A correspondent at Pilton gives it as a 
local name for Dicentra spectabilis. 
LADY’s FINGER (or FINGERS). A name given 
to a number of different flowers, but most 
generally to 
(1) The Kidney-vetch, Anthyllis Vulneraria: 
(2) Birl’s-foot Trefoil, Lotus corniculatus. 
(3) The Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea. 
(4) Early Purple Orchis, Orchis mascula. 
(5) Wild Arum or Cuckoo-pint, Arum macu- 
(6) Common Groundsel, Senecio vulgaris (Trow- 
(7) A school-girl at Bradford-on-Tone gives 
it as 2 local name for the Cinquefoil. 
(8) Tafted Horse-shoe Vetch, Hippocrepis 
comosa (N. and S.W. Wilts). 
(9) Meadow Vetchling, Lathyrus pratensis 
(N. and S.W. Wilts occ isionalls). 
(10) Slow’s Glossary of Wiltshire Words cives 
it as a loval name for the ‘“* Wild Calceolaria ”’ (?) 
