POPULAR AND LOCAL NAMES OF WEEDS 221 



blister-plant, bolt, butter creeses, buttercup, butter daisy, 

 butter-flower, butter rose, carlock-cups, clovewort, cow- 

 slip, craw-foot, craw-taes, crazy, crow-flower, crow-foot, 

 crow-pightle, crow's-foot, crowtoe, eggs-and -butter, gil- 

 CU P> gld crap, gold cup, gold knops, golden knobs, goldy 

 knob, guilty-cup, horse gold, king-cup, king's knob, 

 paigle, yellow bachelor's buttons, yellow caul, yellow 

 crees, yellow cups, yellow gowan, yellow gowlan. 



Ranunculus arvensis, L. Corn buttercup, crow-foot (corn or 

 urchin), crow's-claws, devil-on-all-sides, devil-on-both- 

 sides, devil's claws, devil's coach wheel, devil's currycomb, 

 dill- cup, English stavesacre, forking robin, gold-weed, 

 gye, hard-iron, hedge-hog, hell weed, horse gold, horse- 

 gould, hunger- weed, Jack-o'-both-sides, jack-weed, joy, 

 peagle, pricklebacks, scratchbur, starveacre, yellow crees, 

 yellow cup. 



Ranunculus bulbosus, L. Baffiners, bassinet, bolt, buttercup, 

 butter creeses, butter daisy, butter-flower, carlock-cups, 

 craw, craw-crowfoot, crazy, crow-flower, crowfoot, crow- 

 pightle, crow's-foot, crowtoe, cuckoo-buds, eggs-and- 

 butter, gil-cup, gold crap, gold knobs, golden knobs, 

 golden cup, goldy knob, guilty-cup, hillcups, horse gold, 

 king-cob, king-cup, king's knob, lode-wort, paigle, 

 pissabed, rape crowfoot, St. Anthony's rape, St. An- 

 thony's turnip, yellow crees, yellow caul, yellow cups, 

 yellow gowlan. 



Ranunculus hirsutus, Curtis. Pale hairy crowfoot. 



Ranunculus repens, L. Baffiners, bassinet, bolt, butter creeses, 

 buttercup, butter daisy, butter-flower, carlock-cups, cat- 

 claws, craw-foot, craw-taes, crazy, creeping buttercup, 

 crow-feet, crow-flower, crow- foot, crow-pightle, crow's- 

 claws, crow's-foot, crow-toe, devil's guts, gold-balls, gold 

 crap, gold knops, golden cup, goldy knob, granny-threads, 

 guilty-cup, hod-the-rake, horse gold, king-cup, lantern 

 leaves, meg- many-feet, paigle, ram's claws, sitfast, sitsicker, 

 tether-toad, toad-tether, yellow-caul, yellow crees, yellow 

 cups, yellow gowlan. 



Raphanus raphanistrum, L. Cadlock, charlock, charlock 

 (jointed or white), crawps, curlock, kedlock, kellock, 

 ketlock, rabone, rump, runch, skeldock, skeldick, skellie, 

 skellock, skillock, warlock, wild mustard, wild radish. 



Reseda lutea, L. Base dyer's weed, base rocket, crambling 

 rocket, wild mignonette, yellow reseda. 



