BRAMBLE 163 
gethes rufipes, Byturus tomentosus, Dascillus cervinus, Dryophilus 
anobiordes, Hymenoptera of the genera AZutella, Trypoxylon, Spilomena, 
Pemphredon, Passalecus, Psen, Crabro, Odynerus, Prosopis, Hatictus, 
Andrena, Ceratina, Celioxys, Bombus, and Emphytus, the Lepidoptera 
Green Hairstreak (7hecla rubz), Fox Moth (Lastocampa rubr), Peach 
Blossom (Zhyativa batis), Nepticula fulvella, and many others, the 
Homoptera Lecanium capree, Pediopsis tebialis, Typhlocyba tenerrima, 
the Heteroptera Palomenes prasina, Lopus gothicus, L. sulcatus, 
Dicyphus constrictus, and Lasioptera rubi visit it for food in one form 
or another. 
Rubus, Pliny, was the Latin name for bramble, and the specific 
Latin name, vustzcanus, denotes its wild nature. 
The Bramble is called Brimmle, Broomles, Brumble, Brumbleberries, 
Brumbley-berry Bush, Brummel, Brummelkites, Brymble, Bullbeef, 
Bumbleberries, Bumblekites, Bumly Kites, Bummell, Cock-bramble, 
Cock-brumble, Country Lawyers, Ewe Bramble, Gaitberry, Gaiter- 
tree, Garten Berries, Hawk’s Bill Bramble, Lady’s Garters, Land 
Briars, Lawyers, Mooches, Mulberry, Mulberry Bramble, pealdbety, 
Thet-thorne, Thevethorn, Thilf. 
In regard to the name Blackberry a writer says: ‘ The fine weather 
which is generally experienced at the latter end of September and the 
beginning of October, when the blackberries ripen, is called in Hants 
Blackberry summer.” ‘‘ Blake-berries that on breres growen ” (William 
of Palerne). 
As to Garten Berries, to gartane is to bind with a garter, and the 
name may mean the berries of the binding shrub, Blackberry twigs 
naturally binding other shrubs together, and being, indeed, sometimes 
expressly used for that purpose. This suggestion is borne out by the 
Roxburghshire name, Lady’s Garters. They are called Lawyers 
because ‘‘When once they gets a holt an ye, ye doant easy get shut 
of ‘em”. The name Scaldberry was given because of their property 
of giving scalds or sore heads to children, and to scare children from 
eating them they were thus called. The name Brumble Kites is from 
the “rumbling and bumbling caused in the bellies of children who eat 
its fruit too greedily ” 
But bumble is a contraction of bramble and brumble. In the 
Forest of Dean to ‘mooche blackberries”, or simply to ‘“ mooch”, 
means to pick them. The devil was supposed to put his cloven foot 
on them on Michaelmas Day,! after which it was unlucky to eat them. 
‘The leaves then show a serpentine marking due to a larva which lines them. Hence perhaps the 
reason. 
