90 SCOTCH NAMES OF NATIVE WILD FLOWERS. 



turned the tables on it now. The varieties of orchids growing in 

 woods suffer greatly from hares and rabbits. Bald (or bawd) 

 money is derived from the same word, and means hare's money. 

 Bawd bree is still the common name for hare soup in certain 

 country districts of Aberdeenshire. 



Catscluke, or catluke, is the bird's-foot lotus {Lotus corniculatus 

 and major). Cluke is cleek or claw. Catscluke is cat's claw, 

 from the shape of the tiny pea, and it means much the same as 

 bird's foot. 



Dog's camovyne is the scentless May-weed {Matricaria inodora). 

 Camovyne appears to be a Scotch attempt at pronouncing chamo- 

 mile. It is also called feverfoulie, an attempt at feverfew, and, 

 wildest of all possible attempts at the same, featherwheelie. Dog's 

 gowan is another of its names. 



Dog's tansy is the silver-weed (Potentii/a anserina), also called 

 moor-grass, moss-grass, and moss-crops. 



Dog's siller is the yellow rattle (Rhinanthus Crista-galli). 



Ern-fern (the eagle's fern) is our bladder-fern (Cystoptcris), 

 named from its position beside the eagle's eyrie. 



Gouk's meat, or cuckoo's food, is wood-sorrel (Oxalis Acetosella). 



Horse-knot is the common knapweed or hard-head {Ccntaurca 

 nigra). 



Lamb's-tongue is corn mint {Mentha arvensis), from the shape 

 of the leaf. 



Names from Men or Women. 



Many of our plants, again, are named from men and women. 



Pteris aquilina is the bracken, which means the lady-fern. 

 Brake or brack is the fern in general, and in is the feminine 

 termination of Saxon nouns. The in has been changed here into 

 en. Royal-bracken is the royal-fern (Osmunda regalis). 



Carl boddie is the ribwort plantain (Piantago lanceolata). Carl 

 is the Scotch word for a man, and boddie (Jamieson says) means 

 bald, or destitute of hair. Carl boddie, then, would mean the bald 

 man. But this name is not a true description of the flower's head. 

 It is at different stages quite covered with exserted anthers and 

 feathery pistils, giving it plenty of wool in the place where the 

 wool ought to grow. Boddie is not the word for bald. It is a 

 corruption of baldy, or bold, and the name means brave men, or 



