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corruption of Pool-reed, just as Bull-rush is said 
to be of Pool-rush. 
PoOLICEMAN’S Buttons. The Marsh Marigold, 
Caltha palustris. 
POLICEMAN’S UHELMET. The Monk’s-hood,_ 
Aconitum Napellus (A Martock school-boy). 
POLLARD FLOWERS. Common Lime or Linden, 
Tilia vulgaris (Stoke Abbot, Dorset). 
PoLLy ANDERS or ANDREWS. A play upon 
the name Polyanthus; in some parts of Somerset 
applied also to the Auricula. 
PoltLby BAKER. Several schoolchildren at 
Aller give me this as a local name for the Ragged 
Robin, Lychnis Flos-cuculi. 
Potty Nout. The Sweet Chestnut, Castanea 
vesca (Queen Camel). 
Potty Pops. Honesty, Lunaria biennis (A 
school-girl at Little Toller, Dorset). 
Ponp Lity. The Yellow Iris, Iris Pseudacorus 
(East Devon). 
Pontges’ Tarts. The Greater Plantain, Plantago 
major (Devon). 
Poork Heaps. A number of school-children at 
Otterhampton give me this as a local name for the 
Reed. (? species.) 
PooR JANE. (1) The Herb Robert, Geranium 
Robertianum (Sampford Arundel). 
(2) The Red Campion, Lychnis dioica (Thorne 
St. Margaret). 
(3) The White Campion, Lychnis alba (Wel- 
lington district). 
Poor JAN’s LEAF. The Houseleek, Semper- 
vivum tectorum. Rev. Hilderic Friend made 
enquiries with regard to this plant through the 
Western Antiquary, and received a reply from 
Edward Capern, who said that a lady, a native 
of Ashford, North Devon, informed him that she 
had often heard the Houseleek called ‘‘ Poor 
Jan’s Leaf.” The people have great faith in 
the healing properties of the plant, whence its 
peculiar designation. 
PooR MAn’s Baccy. Mr. F. W. Mathews tells 
me that the Coltsfoot, Tussilago Farfara, is often 
known by this name from its frequent use in the 
old countryman’s pipe. 
PooR MaAn’s BEER. Common Hop, Humulus 
Iupulus (Miss Ella Ford, Melplash). 
PooR MaAn’s BrusH. The Teasel, Dipsacus 
sylvestris (Furley). 
Poor MAN’s FLANNEL. Great Mullein, Verbas- 
cum Thapsus. 
PooR MAn’sS FRIEND. ‘Traveller’s Joy, Clematis - 
Vitalba (Yeovil), more often known in that part 
of the county as OLD MAN’s BEARD. 
