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OLD GRANNY’S SLIPPER SLOPPERS. Meadow 
Vetchling, Lathyrus pratensis (East Dorset). 
OLD LApDyY’s BONNET. The Columbine, Aqui- 
legia vulgaris (an Iiminster school-girl). 
Outp Lapy’s LAck. Wild Parsley or Chervil, 
Anthriscus sylvestris (Yeovil). See My Lapy’s 
LACE. 
OLD LAapy’s NicgHt-cAap. The Canterbury Bell, 
Campanula media (Aller). 
OxLtp LaApy’s Smocks. Greater Convo'vulus 
or Hedge Bindweed, Calystegia sepium (Zeals 
Wilts). 
OLtp Matp. The Wall-flower, Cheiranthus 
Cheiri (Bishopswood). 
OLD MAID’s BASKET. The Co'umbine, Aqui- 
legia vulgaris (Glastonbury). 
OLD MAtIpD’s FLower. The Pansy, Viola 
tricolor (South Petherton and Stalbridge). 
OLD MAtrp’s Last FRIEND. The Pansy, as 
above (Axminster). 
OLD MAID’s ScENT. A school-boy at West 
Coker gives me this as a local name for the ‘* Wild 
Pyrethrum,”’ by which is almost certainly meant 
the Feverfew, Chrysanlhemum Parthenium. 
OLD MAN. (1) A general name throughout 
the district for the Southernwood or Boy’s-love, 
Artemisia Abrotonum. 
(2) Several correspondents in the Stockland 
and Kilton district give it as being used in that 
neighbourhood for the Rosemary, Rosmarinus 
officinalis. 
(3) The Scarlet Pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis 
(S.W. Wilts). 
(4) In some places this name is given to the 
Wild Clematis or Traveller’s Joy, Clematis 
Vitalba, more often called in this district OLD 
MaAN’s BEARD. 
OLD MAN’s Baccy. A correspondent at East 
Harptree gives me this as a local name for Dock 
leaves, but it appears to me more appropriate 
to Burdock or Coltsfoot. 
OLD MAN’s BEARD. (1) A name. given 
throughout the greater part of Somerset and 
Dorset, as well as other parts, to the Wild Clem- 
atis or Traveller’s Joy, Clematis Vitalba, on 
account of the long feathery awns which follow 
the flowers and remain on the rambling stems 
for months. Mr. Elworthy said he had never 
heard the Clematis so called in West Somerset. 
(2) The Cornfield Horse-tail, Equisetum 
arvense (West Somerset) ; called also in the same 
district MARE’S-TAIL and JOINTWEED. 
(3) A fairly general name for the bushy 
bedeguar or ‘“ Robin’s Pincushion,”’ frequently 
found on the Dog-rose. 
