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WuirsuN TASSELS. The Guelder Rose, as 
above (Bradford-on-Tone). See May TaAssELs. 
WHITSUNTIDE. The Lilac, Syringa vulgaris (Mr. 
F. W. Mathews, Bradford-on-Tone). 
WHITSUNTIDE BossEes. The Guelder Rose, 
Viburnum Opulus (Thorncombe and Charmouth). 
Applied in some districts to the garden variety 
only. 
WHITSUNTIDE GILLy (or JELLY) FLOWER. (1). 
A correspondent at Broadstone gives me this as 
a local name for the Sweet Rocket, Hesperis 
matronalis. 
(2) The Rev. H. N. Ellacombe, vicar of 
Bittoa in 1870, writing of the Pink, said it is 
not so named for its colour ; it comes by an easy 
and well-ascertained zourse from ‘‘ Pentecost,’ 
and is in fact the WHITSUNTIDE GILLY-FLOWER 
of our ancestors. 
WHITTY-TREE. The Mealy Guelder-rose, Vibur- 
num Lantana (S.W. Wilts). 
Wo STOLE THE DONKEY? The Goose-grass 
or Cleavers, Galium Aparine (North Somerset). 
WiIcKkED TREE. The Lesser Dodder, Cuscuta 
Epithymum (Miss Ella Ford, Melplash). 
WICKEN TREE. The Mountain Ash, Pyrus 
Aucuparia (Compton, near Yeovil). Dr. Watson 
tells me that WICKEN-BERRY is a common name 
in some parts of the Pennines. 
Wipow’s Cap. The Calceolaria (Bruton). 
WIpow’s WEEDS. The Columbine, Agquilegia 
vulgaris (Tiowbridge). 
WIpD-WIND (Chewt2n Mendip) and 
WippyY WINE (Chilton Polden). See Wuiruy- 
WIND. 
WIGGER-WAGGERS. Quaking Grass, Briza 
media (Bradford-on-Tone). 
WIGGLE WAGGLES. Quaking Grass, as aboye 
(East. Somerset, and Bradford--on-Tone). 
WIGGLE WANTOMS. Quaking Grass (Chewton 
Mendip). 
WIGGLE WANTS. Quaking Grass (S.W. Wilts). 
WIGGLE WOGGLES. Quaking Grass (Dorset). 
Wicey WANTONS. Quaking Grass (Chewton 
Mendip). 
Wic Wams. A common name for the Quaking 
Geass, Briza media, over the Hastern half of 
Somerset and parts of Dorset and Wilts. 
Wig WANDS. Quaking Grass, as above 
(Dors:>t). 
Witp ASPARAGUS. Spiked Star of Bethlehem, 
Ornithogalum pyrenaicum (Somerset and S.W. 
Wilts). See BaTH ASPARAGUS. 
