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says: ‘“‘ It is perhaps as well here to observe that 
though Origane, Orgaine, Organy, or Organ, as 
the word is variously spelt and pronounced, 
comes from the classical languages (Lat. origanum) 
and refers to the plant Marjoram, yet in Devon- 
shire, where the people speak of Organs, Organ- 
tea, ‘Organ-broth, they mean Penny-royal. Mrs. 
Palmer, in ‘‘ Devonshire Courtship,”’ says ‘ I'd 
make it treason to drink ort but organ tey.”’ 
(2) Marjoram, Origanum vulgare. 
ORL. The late G. P. R. Pulman gives this 
a local name in the Crewkerne and Axminster 
district for the Alder, Alnus rotundifolia. 
OsTRICH PLUMES. A scbool-girl at Dunster 
gives me this as a local name for the Aster. Mr. 
W. S. Price telis mé it is a gardener’s name for 
& special variety of Aster. 
Our Lapy’s Basin. An o!d country name 
for the Teasel, Dipsacus sylvestris, from the way 
in which the leaves unite round the stem to form 
basins, which are generally found to contain 
rae and drowned insects, on which the plant 
eeds. 
Our Lapy’s CANDLE. The Great Mullein, 
Verbascum Thapsus. 
Our LaApy’s FLANNEL. The Great Mullein, 
as above. 
Our LADY’s HEART. One of the many popular 
names for Dicentra spectabilis (Martock). Often 
called BLEEDING HEART, LOCKS AND KEys, 
Lapy’s LocKkET, CHINAMAN’S BREECHES, LYRE 
FLOWER, &c. 
Our LaApy’s NiGuHt-cap. The Greater Con- 
volvulus, Calystegia sepvum. 
Our LAapy’s Smock. The Greater Convo:vulus, 
as above. 
Our LaApy’s THIMBLE. The Harebell, Cam- 
panula rotundifolia. See Lapy’s THIMBLE (2). 
OweR. Miss Audrey Vivian (Trowbridge) 
gives me this as a locai name for the Poplar or 
Aspen. Mr. T. W. Cowan tells me the name is 
quite common in the North for the Alder tree. 
Ow.ts’ Eyes. A correspondent at Bradford- 
on-Tone gives me this as a local name for the 
Scarlet Pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis, more often 
called PooR MAN’s WEATHER-GLASS. In Herts 
it is known as ‘ Adder’s Eyes.”’ 
Oysters. (1) Rev. Hilderic Friend says 
fircones are known by this name in Devon, be- 
cause the scales with the seeds nearly enough 
resemble oyster-shells to suggest the name. 
(2) Lilac blossom, Syringa vulgaris, is called 
“Oysters”? in the neighbourhood of South 
Molton. 
(3) From several parts of Wilts, Dorset, and 
West Somerset this is sent me as a local name 
for the Aster; no doubt a corruption. 
