POPULAR AND LOCAL NAMES OF WEEDS 213 



cups, fiddle-grass, gooseberry pie, plum-pudding, red withy 

 herb, sod-apple, son-before-the-father, wild willow, willow 

 herb. 



Equisetum. Cat-rushes, cat's-tail, feather, grandfather's beard, 

 grass (joint, scrub, shave, water), holy-water-sprinkle, 

 horse-tail, joint-weed, mare's-tail, old man's beard, puddock 

 pipes, pull pipes, rattle, snake pipes, tad-broom, tad pipes, 

 tidy-pipe, toad pipe, wold man's beard (?). 

 Equisetum arvense, L. Bottle-brush, cat's-tail, colt's-tail, frog 



pipes, horse pipe, scrub grass, shave grass, snake pipes. 

 Erigeron canadense, L. Butter-weed, Canadian fleabane. 

 Erodium. Heron's-bill. 

 Erodium cicutarium, LHer. Needle (pink, powk), stick-pile, 



stork's-bill, wild musk. 

 Erysimum cheiranthoides, Br. Tarrify, treacle mustard, treacle 



wormseed, worm-seed. 

 Euphorbia. Spurge, tithymall. 

 Euphorbia exigua, L. Dwarf spurge. 



Euphorbia helioscopia, L. Cat's-milk, churnstaff, deil's apple- 

 trees, deil's kirn staff, deil's milk, devil's churnstaff, devil's 

 milk, grass (wart, whitlow), irby-dale grass, little good, 

 mad woman's milk, mamma's milk, milk wort, milk-weed, 

 mouse-milk, Saturday's pepper, seven sisters, sun spurge 

 or sun-following spurge, turnsole or torn-sole, wartweed, 

 wortwort, wolf's milk. 

 Euphorbia peplus, L. Deil's milk, devil's milk, petty spurge, 



seven sisters, wartweed, wee gweedie. 



Euphrasia officinalis, L. Adhib, euphrasy, ewfras, eyebright. 

 Filago germanica, L. Cartafilago, chafeweed, childing cud- 

 weed, clodweed, cudweed, cudwort, downweed, herb 

 impious, hoarwort, old owl, owl's crown, quidwort, son- 

 before-the-father. 



Fumaria officinalis, L. Beggary, earth-smoke, fume-of-the- 

 earth, fumiterre, fumitory, fumusterre, God's fingers and 

 thumbs, snapdragon, wax dolls. 



Galeopsis tetrahit, L. Bee-nettle, blind-nettle, dai-nettle, day- 

 nettle, dea-nettle, de-nettles, deye-nettle, dog-nettle, don- 

 ninethell, female hems, glidewort, hemp (bastard, nettle, 

 wild), hemp-nettle, holyrope, stinging nettle, sting nettle. 

 Galium aparine, L. Airess, airif, airup, aparine, bedstraw, 

 beggar lice, beggar weed, bleedy tongues, bluid tongue, 

 bur, burhead, burweed, catch-rogue, catch-weed, chick- 

 weed, claiton, claver-grass, cleavers, cledon, cleeiton, 



