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flowered hermaphrodite form has a tube 13-16 mm. 

 long, whereas in the female flowers it is only 6-8 mm. 

 long. The distribution of the large- and small- 

 flowered types, according to Willis, varies in the 

 same year. The plant is gynodioecious. 



The nutlets fall, when ripe, near the plant. 



As a common plant Ground Ivy has many 

 vernacular names, which, according to Britten and 

 Holland are, Alehoof, AUhoove, Alliff, Bird's Eye, 

 Blue Runner, Cat's Foot, Deceivers, Devil's Candle- 

 sticks, Fat Hen, Foalfoot, Folesfoth, Gell, Gill, Gill- 

 ale, Gill-go-by-ground, Groundavey, Ground Ivy, 

 Hayhofe, Haymaiden, Hay-maids, Hedge-maids, 

 Heihow, Hen and Chickens, Heyhove, Hove, Jenny- 

 run-ith-ground, Jill, Lion's Mouth, Lizzy-run-the- 

 hedge, Maiden-hair, Mould, Nip, Robin-run-the- 

 Hedge, Rob-run-up-dyke, Run-away-Jack, Runni- 

 dyke, Tudnoore, Tunhoof. 



The name Devil's Candlesticks is current in 

 Warwickshire, and in Germany Thunder-Vine. In 

 Sussex it is called Aller. Carried about with Broom, 

 Straw, Agrimony, Maiden-hair, and Rue, the Ground 

 Ivy was supposed, in the Tyrol, to reveal witches, 

 according to Conway. The name Alehoof is con- 

 sidered to have some connection with the former 

 practice of wearing or dressing objects with garlands. 



In classic names the plant is commemorated as 

 Earth-crown. The word hoof may, indeed, be from the 

 A. S. hufe, a crown. In this connection a chaplet was 

 placed on the ale-stake at inns, and Chaucer writes : 



