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go to Iceland for the nearest approach to our name of Blaeberry. 

 It is Blaber in the Iceland tongue. 



I think I have not previously mentioned in my previous 

 papers on plant names, though I may have done so in another 

 connection, that the Sempervivum, or Houseleek, in itself a 

 corruption, it is said, of House-like, from its being so much grown 

 on houses in olden times as a preventative of lightning, has for 

 long been called the Fooze in this district. I do not find this 

 in several books on the subject; but this plant is also called 

 Sengreen (meaning evergreen), Ayegreen, Birdbread, Jupiter's 

 Eye, Bullock's Eye, and Jupiter's Beard. Birdbread has its 

 equivalent in Pain d'oiseau of the French, and Jupiter's Beard has 

 Barba de Giove in Italian ; while the common name of House- 

 leek has its counterpart in the German Hauslauch, the Dutch 

 Huislook, the Danish Huuslog, and the Swedish Hauslok. The 

 Shepherd's Purse or Shepherd's Pouch was in olden times called 

 Clappe de Pouche, from the fancied resemblance of the plant to 

 the wallets of the beggars, who carried clappers, and had, we 

 are told, the nickname of "Clappe de Pouches." It is also 

 Poor Man's Permacetty, Ladies' Purses, Toywort, and Pick- 

 purse. One of the French popular names is Bourse a pa.steur. 



The Rest Harrow, so called from its resistance to the opera- 

 tions of the husbandman, caused by its long tough roots and 

 stems, I have heard called Wild Liquorice, as formerly men- 

 tioned ; but other names not, so far as I know, current here are 

 Stinking Tarn (from its offensive odour), Cammock, and Rest 

 Plough. One writer gives Petty Whin as a name for the Ononis 

 or Rest Harrow ; but I imagine that this is a mistake, unless it is 

 one of the anomalies we find in connection with popular plant 

 names, as the true Petty Whin is a Furze, but rare in this locality. 



Since my first paper I have found some additional names for 

 the beautiful Briza, or Quaking Grass. Those I named were 

 Shakin' Grass, Cow Quakes, Dotherin' or Dodderin' Dicks, 

 Tremlin' Grass, and Ladies' Hair. To these I have to add as 

 current elsewhere Trembling Jockey, Siller Tassels, Silvery Cow- 

 quakes, Siller Shakle, Fairy Grass, Hair Grass, Dotherin' Docks 

 (a variation of Dotherin' Dicks), Wagwants, Pearl Grass, Quakers 

 and Shakers, and Dodder Grass — surely a formidable array. 



The Poppy is in our part of the world simply the " Puppy," 

 but it bears other names, and some of these are rather interesting. 



