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MoTHER THyME. Wild Thyme, Thymus Ser- 
pyllum. One of the old English names for this 
plant was ‘‘ Mother of Thyme.” 
MoTHERWORT. (1) The usual English name 
for Leonurus Cardiaca, which is, however, rare 
in Somerset. 
(2) Correspondents at Stoke St. Gregory and 
Rodney Stoke give me this as a local name for 
“Wild Arrach,” by which I presume they mean 
the Wild Orache, Atriplex patula. 
MotH Puant. A Taunton lady gives me this 
as a local name for the Great Muilein, Verbascum 
Thapsus. 
MountTAIN ASH. The general English name 
for Pyrus Aucuparia. Mr. Elworthy says: ‘‘ Very’ 
common tree in the district, thus called by the 
people of the better class. Among the labouring 
class it is always QUICK-BEAM.”’ Mr. W.S. Price 
tells me it is also called BUG-BEAM in West 
Somerset. 
MOUNTAIN MINT. Common Calamint, Cala” 
mintha montana. 
MOUNTAIN Mist. A _ school-girl at Axbridge 
gives me this as a local name for Heather, Calluna 
vulgaris. 
MoUNTEBANKS. A Taunton correspondent 
writing in our ‘* Notes and Queries ”’ columns 
in 1902 gave this name and JOHNNY MOUNTAINS, 
as the two names by which he had most frequently 
heard Fircones called in Taunton and other 
parts of Somerset. See DoLLy MOUNTER and 
JOHNNY MOUNTAIN. 
MOURNFUL BELL OF Sopom. A lady at Mar- 
tock gives me this as a local name for the Fritillary 
or Snake Lily, Fritillaria Meleagris. ee DROOP- 
ING BELL OF SODOM. 
MoOURNFUL Wipow. A fairly general name 
throughout the district for the Field Seabious, 
Scabiosa arvensis. Also the garden variety, 
Scabiosa atropurpurea. 
MovurRNING BRIDE. A lady at Damerham (Wilts) » 
gives me this as a local name for the Scabious, 
Scabiosa arvensis. See MOURNFUL WIDOW. 
MOURNING Wipow. (1) His Honour J. S. 
Udal gives this as a Dorset form of the above 
name for the cultivated Scabious, Scabiosa 
atropurpurea. 
(2) A lady at East Grimstead (Wilts) gives 
me this as a local name for the Meadow Crane’s- 
bill, Geranium pratense, but Mr. James Britten 
tells me the plant to which the name is usually 
given is the Dusky Crane’s-bill, G. pheum. This, 
however, is very rare as a wild plant, and whea 
found wiid it is almost invariably an escape 
from some garden. 
