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RENT DAIsIEs. A correspondent at Melbury 
Osmond (Dorset) gives me this as a local name 
for the Michaelmas Daisy, which covers several 
species ot Aster. I presume the name has refer- 
ence to the fact that rent is due at Michaelmas. 
REST HAVEN. The Evening Primrose, 
(nothera biennis (Miss Ella Ford, Melplash). 
RETHER-RIPE. The West Somerset form of 
RATHE-RIPE ; an early kind of apple. Mr. W. S. 
Price (Wellington) writes ‘‘ RETHER-RIPE (three 
syllables) is always used in this neighbourhood, 
and I doubt if farmers would recognize the name 
RATHE-RIPE (two syliables).”’ 
REx-BusH. A clump of Rushes (always, in 
West Somerset). A very old saying is ‘“‘ The 
Barle and the Exe do botb urn out o’ the same 
REX-BUSH.” The meaning is that the two 
rivers with such different courses rise very close 
together (F. T. Elworthy). From A.S. resce. 
REXEN. Rushes. One of the very few words 
which retain the en plural; even this is now 
becoming ‘‘ improved ” into REXENS. (Compare, 
chickens). Mr. W. S. Price tells me that REXIES 
is a more common form than REXEN in the Wel- 
lington district. 
RHUBARB. The young shoots of the Common 
Bramble or Blackberry, Rubus fruticosus, which 
I presume ace eaten by children (a school-girl 
at Bradford-on-Ton2). Compare SUGAR-CANDY. 
RIB-GRAssS or RIBwoRT. The Ribwort Plan- 
tain, Plantago lanceolata. 
Rice. Miss Ella Ford, of Melplash, gives me 
this as a local name for 
(1) The Crosswort Bedstraw, Galium Cruciata. 
(2) The Water Bedstraw, Galiwm palustre. 
(3) The Woodruff, Asperula odorata. See 
RIcE FLOWER. 
(4) Rev. Wm. Barnes gives this as a Dorset 
word for brushwood. 
(5) Mr. T. W. Cowan writes me :—RiIcE is a 
Sussex word for underwood cut sufficiently young 
to bear winding into hedger or hurdles. It is 
the modern form of A. Sax. Aris, a thin branch 
(Parish). 
RicE FLOWER. Woodruff, Asperula odorata 
(Brompton Regis and Melbury Osmond). 
RIGGLERS. A common corruption of “ Auri~ 
culas.”’ 
RisHEs. Mr. W. S. Price gives me this as a 
West Somerset pronunciation of ‘‘ Rushes.” 
Rising Sun. The Ox-eye Daisy, Chrysan- 
themum Leucanthemum (Camerton). 
RoaD TO HEAVEN. Miss Ella Ford, of Melplash, 
gives me this as a local name for Jacob’s Ladder 
or Greek Valerian, Polemonium ccruleum. 
