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Tone and Sampford Arundel give this as a Jocal 
name for the Hop Trefoil, 7'rifolium procumbens. 
Tom THUMB’sS FINGERS AND THUMBs. Bird’s- 
foot Trefoil Lotus corniculatus. 
Tom THUMB’S HONEYSUCKLE. Bird’s-foot 
Trefoil, Lotus corniculatus (S.W. Wilts Sarum 
Diocesan Gazette). 
Tom (or TomMy) TIcKkLERS. The Hips or fruit 
of the Wild Rose. Sze TICKLERS. 
Tor Knot. The Black Knapweed, Centaurea 
nigra (Winsham). 
Tossy Batts. Dr. Downes tells me that the 
cultivated double variety of the Guelder Rose, 
Viburnum Opulus, is always known by this name 
in LUminster. It has also been sent me by a 
number of young peorle living in that district. 
TOTTER-GRASS. Quaking grass, Briza media 
(Stoke-under-Ham). 
ToucH Me Nor. (1) The Yellow Balsam, 
Impatiens Noli-tangere, and the Garden Balsam, 
I. Balsamina, from the well-known way in which 
their seed-vessels curl up their valves spirally at 
the slightest touch, jerking their contents into 
the face of the person bending over them. 
(2) Mr. F. W. Mathews (Bradford-on-Tone) 
gives me this as a local name for the Thale-cress 
or Wall-cress, Sisymbrium Thalianum. 
(3) The Burdock, Arctium minus (school-boys 
at Muchelney). 
TowERs. The Spotted Orshis, Orchis maculata 
(an Evercreech school-boy). 
TowN WEED. Dog’s Mercury, Mercurialis 
perennis (West Moors, Dorset). Dr. Watson 
writes : ‘‘ M. annua may perhaps be the species 
meant. The name fits it much better as it 
often occupies cleared spaces in urban districts. 
M. perennis is a much more rural plant.” 
TRAVELLER'S COMFORT. Goose-grass, Galium 
Aparine (Deverill, Wilts). 
TRAVELLER'S EASE. Common Yarrow, Achillea 
Millefolium (Little Langford, Wilts). 
TRAVELLER'S JOY. A very general name for 
the Wild Clematis, Clematis Vitalba, first given to 
it by John Gerarde (1597). Mr. T. W. Cowan 
writes me :—‘‘ This presents a curious instance 
of a word originating in a mistaken etymology. 
Lat. viburnum: shortened in the French name 
to viorne. This Latinized into viorna was taken 
by Gerard to mean _ vi(am)—ornaus, the plant 
which decks the road with its flowers, and so 
cheers the traveller on his way, and Englished 
‘‘ Traveller’s Joy.”? He says ‘‘ is called commonly 
Viorna quasi vias ornaus, of decking and adorning 
waies and hedges, where people trauell, and 
thereupon I have named it the Traueilers Joie.’’ 
Gerarde, Herball p. 739. 
