228 Some Local Plant Names. 



Among them we have Corn Rose, Cockeno, Cockscombs (com- 

 pare the French Coquelicot), Red Weed, Thunder Flower, 

 Cheesebowls, Headache, Coprose, Papig, and Jone Silverpin. 

 It is said that Joan's Silverpin is, or was, applied in one part of 

 England to a piece of finery on a slut, and was thus used to 

 indicate that the Poppy, though a very beautiful flower, adorned 

 a worthless object. In this part of the country we are not 

 troubled with the Corn Poppy in the fields to the same extent 

 as in many other places. 



The Honeysuckle seems universally called by this title in 

 this part of the country, but other local names in other districts 

 of the United Kingdom are Caprifoly, Ladies' Fingers, Wood- 

 bind, ^Voodbine, Eglantine, and — most poetical of all — " Lily 

 among Thorns." 



Moss is almost always Fog with us, and the Turnip, when 

 it has not the odious corruption "Turmit," is Neep, derived 

 without a doubt from the old Anglo-Saxon Naep. I frequently 

 wonder how the Onion came to be called an Ingan in this part 

 of the world. I dare not venture on a suggestion. The Potato 

 is often the Tatty, and in some parts the Praty, both rather 

 unkindly names for the useful plant they do not adorn. 



The Sow Thistle is Swine Thrissel in one part of Scotland, 

 and it has also been Hare's Palace and Hare's Lettice, not 

 Lettuce be it noted, but applied with the idea of the word " let ' ' 

 as we have it in Scripture, "without let or hindrance." It was 

 said that if a hare could manage to get under its leaf nothing 

 would touch the animal. 



Such are some further additions to a wide subject, which 

 would take much enquiry and many searches to do it proper 

 justice. 



Note. — Errata in former paper in X.S., Vol. XXIII. , p. 197, 

 line 31, for round-leaved Bellflower read broad-leaved; p. 198, 

 line 12, for Genista angelica read Genista anglica. 



