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UNDER-GROUND Ivy. (1) Ivy-leaved Toad, 
flax, Linaria Cymbalaria (Curry Mallet). 
(2) Ground Ivy, Nepeta hederacea (Draycott). 
UNDER-GROUND Nor. Earth-nut, Conopodium 
majus. 
UNDER-GROUND Roses. His Honour J. §8. 
Udal gives this as a Dorset name for the Double 
Pink Hepatica triloba. 
Upstart. The Meadow Saffron or Autumn 
Crocus, Colchicum autumnale, from the way in 
which its flowers start up suddenly from the 
ground without any sign of leaves. 
VARIEGATED NETTLES. Mr. Edward Vivian 
gives me this as a name for “ Cultivated indoor 
plants with a nettle-like leaf. They are quite 
stingless. Their leaves are found in a hundred 
shades of reds, browas, yellows, aad greens, 
irregularly and beautifully blotched.” I presume 
he refers to the Coleus. . 
Vases. The Dove’s-foot Crane’s-bill, Geranium 
molle (a school-girl at Tatworth). 
VEARNS. Several correspondents send me this 
as a local name for Ferns generally, and for the 
Bracken, Pteris aquilina in particula~. Mr. F. w. 
Mathews writes: “The word VEARN (not plur- 
alized but used generically) means only bracken 
eut for stock-bedding.” 
VELVET Dock. A _ school-girl at Brompton 
Regis gives me this as a local name for what e 
believe to be the Greater Mullein, Verbascum 
Thapsus. 
Venus’ BasIN. The Teasel, Dipsacus sylvestris 
(a school-boy at Bradford-on-Tone). Other old 
English names for the plant are Venus’ Baru and 
VENus Cup. Dr. Downes writes me : “ The 
leaves are connate, #.e., united at their bases. 
and surrounding the stem, so as to form a basin. 
The plant feeds on the insects which are drowned 
in the water which collects in this basin—an 
example of an insectivorous plant.’ 
VENUS’ CHARIOT DRAWN BY Two Dovzs. An 
old English namc for the Monk’s-hood, Aconitum 
Napellus. 
VENUS’ ComMB. An 4d name, still frequently 
used, for the Shepherd’s Neeale, Scandix Pecten- 
Veneris. 
VeENvs’ Fry-Trap. The true Venus’ Fly-trap 
is Dionea muscipula, a Sundew found in the 
sandy bogs of Nocth and South Carolina; but 
I gather from several school-children at Wembdoa 
that the name is incorrectly used in that district 
for oar English Sundew, Drosera rotundifolia. 
VENUS IN HER Car. The school-children at 
North Cheriton and Holton give this name to the 
