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gethes rufipes, Byturus tomentosus, Dascillus cervinus, Dryophilits 

 anobioides, Hymenoptera of the genera Mutilla, Trypoxylon, Spilomena, 

 Pemphredon, Passalcecus, Psen, Crabro, Odynerus, Prosopis, Halictus, 

 Andrena, Ceratina, Ccelioxys, Bombus, and Emphytus, the Lepidoptera 

 Green Hairstreak (Tkecla rubi\ Eox Moth (Lasiocampa rubi\ Peach 

 Blossom (jrhyatira batis], Nepticula fulvella, and many others, the 

 Homoptera Lecanium capretz, Pediopsis tibialis, Typhlocyba tenerrima, 

 the Heteroptera Palomenes prasina, Lopus gothicus, L. sulcatiis, 

 Dicyphus constrictus, and Lasioptera riibi visit it for food in one form 

 or another. 



Rubus, Pliny, was the Latin name for bramble, and the specific 

 Latin name, rusticanus, 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, Scaldberry, 

 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, 1 after which it was unlucky to eat them. 



^he leaves then show a serpentine marking due to a larva which lines them. Hence perhaps the 



