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WOLF’S-BANE. The Monk’s-hood, Aconitum 
Napellus. 
Wo.ur’s Eyr. A school-girl at Evershot sends 
me this as a local name for the Small Bugloss, 
Iycopsis arvensis. Anne Pratt says the Dutch 
call this plant Wolfs-chyn, and this, as well as the 
scientific name, has a reference to the fancied 
resemblance of this flower to the face or eye of 
a wolf ; but he must have had a very active fancy 
to whose mind the resemblance was first sug- 
gested. 
Woman’s NIGHT-cAPp. The Wood Sorrel, 
Oxalis Acetosella (a school-girl at Brompton 
Regis). 
Woop ALONE. The Moschatel, Adoxa Mos- 
chatellina (Miss Ella Ford, Melplash), 
Woop AsH. The Wood Sorrel, Ozalis Aceto- 
sella (a school-girl at Chewton Mendip). 
Woop Etprer. Dr. R. C. Knight gives me 
this as a Somerset name for the Wood Sanicle, 
Sanicula europea. 
Woop LAvUREL. The Common Spurge Laurel, 
Daphne Laureola. 
Woop PxEA. The Tuberous Bitter Vetch, 
Lathyrus montanus. 
Woop Wax. (1) Dyer’s Greenweed, Genista 
tinctoria (Wilts and Dorset). 
(2) Needle Whin, Genista anglica (Farley, 
Wiits). 
(3) The Broom, Cytisus scoparius (school- 
girls at S ock'and, Devon). 
Woop WEx. A Dorset form of Woop-wax (1). 
WooLiy Heaps. Tie Wood Anenome, Anenome 
nemorosa (Dowiish Wake). 
WoRD (Or WOARD) APPLES (7.e., hoard apples). 
Mr. F. W. Mathews, of Bradford-on-Tone, gives 
me this as a local term ap >[ied to dessert fruit as 
as distinguish d from cider fruit, th latter being 
used fresh and juicy, but the former being stored 
or hoarded to mature and mellcw. 
WORM-SEED. The Worm-seed Treacle-mustard, 
Erysimum cheiranthoides. The name owes its 
origin to the seeds of the plant being used as a 
vermifuge. 
Wormwoop. (1) The true Wormwood is 
Artemesia Absinthium, but through confusion the 
name is sometimes applied to the Mugwort, 
A. vulgaris, and also to the Southernwood or 
Boy’s Love, A. abrotonum. 
(2) The Nipplewort, Lapsana communis 
(Watchet). 
Worts. The Whortleberry, Vaccinium Myrtil- 
lus ; more particularly applied to the fruit. 
