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WAYFARING TREE. A general name for the 
Mealy Guelder-rose, Viburnum Lantana. 
WAYSIDE Beauty. The Blackthorn, Prunus 
spinosa (a schol-boy at Hardington Mandeville). 
WAYSIDE BrReAD. The Greater Plantain, 
Plantago major (Wilts; Eng. Plant Names). 
WEASEL’s Nose. A_ variation of WEASsEL- 
SNOUT sent me from Kimmeridge, Dorset. 
WEASEL-SNoUT. A geueral English name for 
the Yellow Dead-nettle, Lamium Galeobdolon. 
WEATHER CLocks. The Dandelion, Taraxacum 
officinale ( school-boy at Long Sutton). 
WEATHER FLOWER. The Scarlet Pimpernel, 
Anagallis arvensis (Milborne Port). 
WEATHER TELLER. The Scarlet Pimpernel, as 
above (We-t Somerset). 
WEATHER GLAss. The Scarlet Pimpernel, as 
above (East Somerset and Wilts). 
WEDDING FLOWERS. Anemoves (? Anemone 
memorosa) (Camerton). 
WEEPING GOLDEN BELLS. A lady at Wells 
gives me this as a lozal name for a species of 
Forsythia—a genus of slender shrubs of the 
Olive family, natives of China and J. apan, of which 
two species are cultivated in parks under the 
name of GOLDEN Rain. Mr. T. W. Cowan sug- 
gests the particular species would probably be 
FF. suspensa. 
WEEPING WILLow. In some parts of North 
Devon this name is given to the Laburaum, 
Laburnum vulgare, from its drooping clusters 
of golden blossoms, and its leaf being somewhat 
like that of the willow. The true Weeping Willow 
is Salix babylonica. 
WEEps. Dr. R. OC. Knight gives me this as 
an Hast Somerset word for long brushwood, 
bound into small bundles with three bonds 
(instead of one as an ordinary faggot), used for 
Shelter, e.g. lambing yards, open cow-stalls, &c. 
He telis me he has never heard it used in the 
singular. 
WELCOME HomzE, HusBAND, THOUGH NEVER 
so DrRunK. This very curious local name for 
the Ycilow Stonecrop, Sedum aere, is sent me 
by a lady at Hammoon (Dorset). 
WELp. A general English name for the Dyet’s 
Rocket or Yeilow Weed, Reseda Luteola: some- 
times called DyYER’s MIGNONETTE. 
WeEtsH Nour. The Walnut, Juglans regia. 
WET-ABED (Or WETTHE BED). The Dandelion, 
Taraxacum officinale. 
