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(2) Anequal number cf Paulton correspondents 
give the name to the Hawkbit. Leontodon. 
LiFE OF MAN. His Honour J. 8S. Udal gives this 
as a Dorset name for the Spiderwort, Tradescantia 
virginica. 
LIGHTNING FLOWER. An old country name for 
the Scarlet Field Poppy, Papaver Rheas, from a 
curious superstition among children that if they 
pick it and the petals fall off, as they are apt to 
do, the children are then liable to be struck by 
lightning. 
Litac Ftower. Two school-girls at Ilminster 
give me this as a local name for the Water Mint, 
Mentha aquatica. 
Liny (or Lintes). (1) An Ilminster school-girl 
gives me this as a local name for the Purple Iris. 
(2) In S.W. Wilts the name is given to the 
Hedge Convolvulus, Calystegia sepium. Compare 
BINE-LILIES. 
(3) Wild Arum or Cuckoo-Pint, Arum macu- 
atum (Barfcrd, Wilts). 
Lity ConFrancy. A Martock school-boy gives 
me this as a local name for the Lily of the Valley, 
Convallaria majalis. 
LIMPERN-SCRIMP, LIMPER-SCRIMP, and LIMPET- 
Scrime. Three of the commonest forms of the 
most general name in West Somerset for the 
Cow-parsnuip cr Hogweed, Heracleum Sphondylium. 
See LUMPER-SCRUMP. 
Limeets-Crimp. A lady at Kilton gives me 
this as a local name for the common Duckweed, 
Lemna minor. 
LINEN Buttons. The Lily of the Valley, 
Convallaria majalis (a school-girl at Ilminster). 
Lion’s Foot. Common Lady’s Mantle, Alche- 
milla vulgaris. 
Lion’s MoutH. (1) A iairly general name for 
the Snap-dragon, Antirrhinum majus, which is also 
called in some parts of the country Lion’s LEAF. 
(2) Yellow Toad-flax, LIinaria vulgaris (Ax- 
minster district). 
LIon’s Paw. Sameas LiIon’s Foor. 
Lion’s SNAP. Two school-girls at Queen Camel 
give me this as a local name for the Yellow Dead 
Nettle, Lamium Galeobdolon. 
Lion’s TEETH (cor TooTH). (1) The Dandelion, 
Taraxacum officinale. The generic name of this 
plant was formerly Leontodon, which is now 
reserved for the Hawkbit group, and which 
means Lion’s Tocth. The English name, Dande- 
lion, comes frcm the French dent de lion, and 
means the same. It is said that the plant bears 
an equivalent name in nearly every country in 
Europe. 
(2) A schonl-girl at Chewton Mendip gives it 
as a local name for the Wild Lettuce, Lactuca 
muralis. 
