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(4) Southernwood o: Boy’s-love, Artemisia 
Abrotonum (Do-set and Wilts). 
(5) A number of young people at Thorne St. 
Margaret give m? this as a local name for “* Water- 
grass.’ Probably either Phalaris arundinacea or 
Phragmites communis when in seed. 
(7) One of the many popular names for 
Saxvifraga sarmentosa. Soe AARON’S BEARD (2). 
(6) Meadow-sweet, Spirea Ulmaria (a schoo.- 
girl at Otterhampton). 
(8) See GRANDFATHER’S BEARD (4). 
OLD MAN’s BREAD AND CHEESE. Common 
Maliow, Malva_ sylvestris (Ubley). See BREAD 
AND CHEESE (2). 
OLD MAN’s Burrons. (1) The Marsh Mari- 
go'd, Caltha palustris (South and East Somerset 
and Do:set). ; 
(2) Applied also to several species of Butter- 
cup, Ranunculus. 
(3) Burrs of the Burdock, Arctium minus 
(Membury, Devon). 
OLD MAN’s CLocK. Dandelion, Taraxacum 
officinale (Stour Provost, Dorset). 
Oup Man’s Face. (1) The Pansy, Viola 
tricolor. 
(2) The Snsapdragon, Antirrhinum majus 
(Stockland, Devon). 
OLD MAN’s FLANNEL. Great Mullein, Ver- 
bascum Thapsus. 
OL~p MAN’s FLowerRs. A correspondent at 
Barrington gives me this as a local name for 
flowers something like the Eltrot, Heraclewm 
Sphondylium, having long, hollow, hairy stems, 
and growing with buttercups. 
OLD Man’s’ FRIEND. Scarlet Pimpern:!- 
Anagallis arvensis (a school-girl at Muchelney). 
OLD MAN’s GLASS EYE. Scarlet Pimpernel, as 
above (Staple Fitzpaine). 
OLD MAN’s Hat. The Garden Lily (a schoo!l- 
girl at Otterhampton). 
OLD MAN’s LOoOKING-GLASsS. A number of 
young people at Paulton give me this as a local 
name for the Scarlet Pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis; 
no doubt through confusion with OLD (OR Poor) 
MAN’S WEATHER-GLASS. 
O~tp Man’s NieuHt-cap. (1) Greater Con- 
volvulus or Hedge Bindweed, Calystegia sepium. 
(2) Lesser Convoivulus or Field Bindweed, 
Convolvulus arvensis. 
OLD MAN’s PEPPER. (1) Common Yarrow, 
Achillea Millefolium. 
(2) Several young people at Evershot give me 
this as a local name for the Salad Burnet, Potertum 
Sanguisorba. 
