CHAPTER XIII. 



POPULAR AND LOCAL NAMES OF WEEDS. 1 



Achillea millefolium, L. Arrow-root, bloodwort, camil, cam- 

 mock, carpenter-grass, devil's nettle, dog daisy, eerie, 

 garwe, girs (stanch or stench), greenarrow, hundred- 

 leaved grass, melefowr, milfoil, nosebleed, old man's 

 mustard, pepper (old man's, wild), sanguinary, sneeze- 

 wort, tansy, thousand-leaf, thousand-leaved clover, yallow, 

 yarrow, yarroway, yerrow. 



Aethusa cynapium> L. Ass-parsley, dill, dog-poison, dog's 

 parsley, false parsley, fool's cicely, fool's parsley. 



Agrimonia eupatoria, L. Agrimony, church-steeple, cockle 

 burr, egremoine, egremounde, garclive, goosechite, harvest 

 lice, hemony, liverwort, rat-tail, tansy (white, wild). 



Agropyron repens. See Triticum repens. 



Agrostis sp. Cloud grass. 



Agrostis alba, L. Dun John, quick, spear grass, whicks, 

 wicks, fine John, florin, running twitch, white bent 

 grass. 



Agrostis stolonifera^ L. Bent grass, black grass, black-top 

 grass, florin-grass, knotgrass, orcheston grass, orchis 

 grass (?), quitch, red robin, squitch grass, surface twitch, 

 water-grass. 



Agrostis vulgaris, L. Bent, bent-grass, black quitch, bread- 

 and-cheese, fine John, monkey's grass, squitch, tussocks, 

 twitch, water twitch. 



Aira caryophyllea^ L. Mouse-grass, hairgrass, silver hair- 

 grass. 



Aira caespitosa, L. Bent grass, benton pry, bull-faces, bull- 

 front, bull-hassocks, bull-pates, bull pole, bull's forehead, 



1 Many of the names given in this chapter have been met with in the course 

 of the weed surveys made by the author in different parts of the country. The 

 majority, however, have been taken from 



(a) Britten, J., and Holland, R. (1886), " A Dictionary of English Plant 

 Names " ; 



(b) Prior, R. C. A. (1879), " On the Popular Names of British Plants ". 



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