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LADY’S FINGERS AND ‘THUMBS.  Bitd’s-foot 
Trefoil, Lotus corniculatus. 
LApDY’s GARTERS. The common g.iden striped 
Ribbon Gras.. Digraphis or Phalaris arundinacea. 
Known also as LApy’s LAckEs and Lapy’s 
RIBANDS. 
Lapy’s Gtoves. (1) Miss Ella Ford, of 
Melplash, gives me this as a local name for the 
Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Lotus corniculatus, and it is 
give, in the Wiltshire Glossary as a name in S.W. 
Wilts for the ‘“ Greater Bird’s-foot,’ Lotus 
uliginosus. 
(2) The Foxglove, Digitalis purpurea (Dorset). 
(8) In some places the name is given to the 
Canterbury Bell. Campanula media; also to 
(4) Ploughman’s Spikenard, Inula squarrosa. 
LApy’s Grass. (1) Same as LADY’s GARTERS. 
(2) A Maize, Zea japonica (Rev. H. Friend). 
Lapy’s Harr. (1) Quaking Grass, Briza 
media (Watchet, Bradford-on-Tone, and Queen 
Came!). 
(2) Wall-rue. Asplenium Ruta-muraria (Rodney 
Stoke). 
Lapy’s Hat-pins. Several young people in 
the Axminster district give me this as a local 
aame for the Field Seabious, Scabiosa arvensis. 
LApvy’s Heart. Dicentra spectabilis, known 
also as BLEEDING HEART, LADY’s LOCKETs, and 
by many other names. 
Lapy’s Keys. (1) The Cowslip, Primula 
veris (Sampiord Brett). The Cowslip is also 
known by this name in Germany. 
(2) The frait of the Sycamore, Acer Pseudo- 
platanus (Chiimark, Wilts). 
LADy’s KNIVES AND ForRKs. Common Club- 
moss, Lycopodium clavatum. Very common on 
Dunkery and Porleck Hill. Known also as 
STAG’S-HORN Moss. 
LADyY’s Lace. (1) Fool’s Parsley, Athusa 
Cynapium (Sexey’s Schoo}). 
(2) Hedge Parsley, Caucalis  Anthriscus 
(Ycov-. A 
(3) Hemlock, Conium maculaiwm (South 
Somerset). 
Lapy’s Laces. (1) The Dodder, Cuseuta 
Epithymum. 
(2) Same as LADY’s GARTERS. 
Lapy’s Lint. The Greater Stitchwort, Stellaria 
Holostea. Britten says ‘‘ probably from the 
white threads in the centre of the stalks’; but 
others consider it more probably from the white- 
ness of the flowers, like a patch of lint ready for 
a Wound. 
