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words the dialect is than the literary language. 
Oid French movscheron. Mr. TT. W. Cowan teils 
me ‘‘ Musheron ”’ occurs in Palsgrave, 1530. 
MustTarRD Tips. A Yeovil school-boy gave 
me this as a local name for the Black Madick, 
Medicago lupulina, or the Hop Trefoil, Trifolium 
procumbens. It is probable that the name is 
appiied to both plants. 
Mutrron CuHops. The young tops or shoots 
of the Goosefoot, Chenopodium, sometimes boiled 
in the spring for food (Rev. W. Barnes, Dorset), 
Mutron Dock. Mercury Goosefoot or Good 
King Henry, Chenopodium Bonus-Henricus (Bour- 
ton, Dorset). 
Mutrron Tors. White Goosefoot, Chenopodium 
album (Allerford and Dorset). See Murron 
CHOPS. 
My Lapy’s Ear-props. The Fuchsia (South 
Petherton). See EAR-DROPS and LApDy’s EAR- 
DROPS. 
My Lapy’s Grass. Striped Ribbon Grass, 
Phalaris arundinacea torm variegata. 
My Lapy’s Lace. Miss Ida Roper gives me 
this as a Dorset name for the Cnervil, formerly 
known to botaaists as Chernphyllim § sylvestre, 
but now as Anthrise:s sylvestris. 
My Lapy’s Smock. A lady at Lyme Regis 
gives me this as a iocal name for the Cuckoo- 
flower, Cardamine pratensis ; more generally called 
LApy’s SMOCK. . 
Narits. Common Daisy, Bellis perennis (Mere . 
Wiits). 
Naitwort. An 0o'd English nam: for 
Whitlow-grass, Hrophila. Anne Pratt says: 
“Tne name of Woitlow-grass, as well as 
that of Nailwort, points to the opinion of our old 
herbalists, that the acrid juice of these plants, 
mingled with milk, cured whitlows; though, 
probably, the efficacy of the remedy belonged to 
the milk only, hot milk being still used in cases 
of whitlow.” 
NAKED (or NAKEY) Boys. (1) Meadow 
Saffron or Autumn Crocus, Colchicum autumnale. 
(2) A correspondent at Dorchester gives me 
this as a local name for the ‘‘ Water Anemone ”’ by 
which Dr. Watson tells me is almost certsialy 
meant Ranunculus fluitans, a large-flcwered 
Water Crowfoot, which is plentiful in the Dor- 
chester streams. 
NAKED JAcKs. Autumn Crocus, as above (1). 
NAKED LADIES. (1) One of the commonest 
names for the Meadow Saffron or Autumn Crocus, 
Colchicum autumnale, due to the flowers springing 
up on long slender stems, with an apparently 
