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OLD MAN’sS PEPPER-BOX. Sneeze-wort Yarrow, 
Achillea Ptarmica (Wambrook). 
OLp MAN’s Putpir. Wild Arum or Cuckoo- 
pint, Arum maculatum (Combe St. Nicholas). 
OLD MAN’sS SHIRTS. Greater Convo!lvulus, 
Calystegia sepium (Yetminster). 
OLp MANn’s SNUFF-BOx. A puffball fungus, 
Lycoperdon. See DEVIL’s SNUFF-BOX. 
OLD MAN’s WEATHER-GLASS. A fairly general 
name throughout the district for the Scarlet 
Pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis. 
OLD MAN’S WHISKERS. Several correspondents 
in the Ilminster district give me this as a local 
name for the Wood Horsetail, but as this plant, 
Equisetum sylvaticum, is very rare in the county 
I imagine there is some confusion of the species. 
Dr. Downes suggests the plant intended is &. 
maximum. 
OLD MEN’s BEARD. Same as OLD MAN’s 
BEARD (2). 
OLD MEN’s Burrons. Marsh Marigold, Caltha 
palustris. 
OLD MEN’s MatcHEs. A correspondent at 
Coombe Bissett (Wilts) gives me this as a local 
name for the ‘ Scarlet Cup lichen,” Cladonia 
coccifera. 
OLp MeEN’s TROUSERS. A correspondent at 
Pawiett gives me this as a local name for the 
Iris. 
OLD MoTHER THYME. Wild Thyme (Dunster). 
See MOTHER THYME. 
Oxtp Rock. A corruption of OLD RoT (which 
see), sent me from Pawlett and other places. 
OLtp Root or OLD Ror. Rev. Wm. Barnes 
gives this as the Somerset form of ELTROT, which 
he defines as “‘ The stalk and umbeli of the Wild 
Parsley.” But ELrroT is the usual name in 
East Somerset for the Cow-parsnip, Heracleum 
Sphondylium. 
OxLp Rot. <A number of correspondents in the 
no:thern part of Somerset give me this as a local 
name for the Cow-parsnip, Heracleum Sphon- 
dylium. Probably another form of ELTRoT, 
which see. 
OLp Sow. The Wilts Glossary gives this as 
being used rarely in N. and S.W. Wilts for 
Melilotus coerulea, from its peculiar odour. It is 
not easy to anderstand this, as Mr. T. W. Cowan 
points out the common name of Melilotus cerulea 
is Sweet Trefoil, for which ®LD Sow is hardly 
appropriate. ; 
OLup UncteE Harry. Mugwort, Artemisia 
vulgaris (Winsham). 
