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plant and applied to the face was much used formerly by lads 
impatient for the growth of abeard. dZay/éower is not inappropriate 
to the Cuckoo flower, nor Cuckoo’s bread and cheese to the Wood 
Sorrel, both blossoming when that “wandering voice” is first 
heard. Zasterledge for the Bistort is corrupted from os¢erzck, with a 
conjectural and mistaken reference to avéstolochia, a name belonging 
to another plant. Ling-berry is a confusion of the somewhat 
similar crowberry with ling or heather. Aeckberry for the bird 
cherry is hedge-berry ; Paddock’s pipe or toad’s pipe applies easily 
to the long slender tubes of horse tail; (elon grass, the green 
hellebore, was used by herbalists to cure whitlows, called in 
medical Latin “little thieves” or “felons.” Aud toppins is pool 
toppings, from. the tuft-like trusses of the Azra cespitosa, growing 
in pools and bogs. Moss crops belongs to the woolly crop or head 
of the mossgrowing Cotton plant. esi, in midland England 
kecks, in Shakespeare hecksies, is a name given to any of the hollow 
stalked umbellifers, and is either from the old English eek, to 
peep through the stems, or corrupted from cicuta, hemlock. The 
name Keswick is said to be derived from it. Henpens is Yellow 
Rattle, in reference probably to the round flat seeds, altered from 
henpence, used in Lincolnshire for the money payment to the lord 
of the manor for liberty to keep hens. Yorkshire fog is the soft 
meadow grass, fog being in general use for aftermath. Why 
Houseleek should be Syphell, ragwort ooins, oxlip Goupil and 
Sinkin, some present may be able to explain; I have failed to find 
the clue. In fact it must be understood that several of my state- 
ments are made “under correction.” My Lake flower lore belongs 
to me in botanical language as an “alien,” not as a “‘native;” and 
though I have botanised in the district much and often, and have 
availed myself of all published records and of many verbal com- 
munications, there must be points on which habitual residents are 
able to supplement, modify, or negative facts which I have accepted 
and alleged. 
What has the Poet of Nature and of the Lakes to say about the 
flowers of his home? Less than we could have wished; and that 
little encumbered by the fact that Wordsworth was no naturalist ; 
