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Mote. A single Straw or single stalk of Hay. 
MoTHER CAREY’S CHICKEN. A lady living 
near Taunton gives me this as a local name for 
the Double Daisy. See HEN and CHICKENS (2). 
MoTHER Daisy. As a boy in East Somerset 
I seldom or never heard the Ox-eye Daisy, 
Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, called by any 
other name than this. 
MoTHeR Die. A Bridgwater school-mistres 
gives me this as a local name for the “ Wild 
Parsley ” (?) ; known also by the school-children 
in that district as PICKPOCKET. 
MoTHER Mary’s MiLK. A Martock lady gives 
me this as a local name for the Common Milkwort, 
Polygala vulgaris. 
MOTHER OF MILLIONS. The Ivy-leaved Toad- 
flax, Linaria Cymbalaria. See below. 
MoTHER OF THOUSANDS. (1) The Ivy-leaved 
Toadflax. Sze above. 
(2) Yellow Corydalis, Corydalis lutea. The 
Rev. H. Friend gives this as a Somerset name, 
and it is sent me from Bradford-on-Tone and 
other places. 
(3) Mr. F. T. Eiworthy gives this as a West 
Somerset name for the “ Creeping Campanula ” 
(?), and a correspondent at Hatch Beauchamp 
gives it as a local name for the ‘‘ Campanula.” 
Dr. Watson writes we that Mr. Elworthy’s 
Campanula is not a British species, but is a pot- 
plant often grown in company with Sazifraga 
sarmentosa (6), and the name MOTHER OF THOU- 
SANDS, which is usually given to the latter, has 
been applied to the former through confusion. 
Mr. W. D. Miller suggests that Mr. Elworthy’s 
plant is Wahlenbergia hederacea. 
(4) Two school-girls at Stower Provost (Dorset) 
give it as a local name for the Common Yarrow or 
Milfoil, Achillea Millefolium. 
(5) The Virginian Stock, Malcolmia maritima 
(Wilts and Dorset). 
(6) The rambling pot plant, Saxifraga sar- 
mentosa ; known also as SPIDER-PLANT, STRAW- 
BERRY PLANT, AARON’S BEARD, POOR MAN’s 
GERANIUM, &ce. 
(7) Mr. Edward Vivian (Trowbridge) gives 
it as one of several local names for London Pride, 
Saxifraga umbrosa. 
MoTHER SHIMBLES’ SNICK NEEDLES. Greater 
Stitchwort, Stellaria Holostea, a name recorded in 
the Sarum Diocesan Gazette as used at Zeals. 
MoTHER’s Nigut-cAps. Greater Convolvulus, 
Calystegia sepium (a school-girl at Stockland, 
Devon). 
* MoTHER THREAD My NEEDLE. Herb Robert. 
Geranium Robertianum (Ditcheat). 
