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bed-at-noon, Joseph's flower, nap-at-noon, noon-flower, 

 noontide, shepherd's clock, sleep-at-noon, star of Jerusa- 

 lem. 



Triticum repens, L. (= Agropyron repens, Beauv.}. Cooch, 

 couch, couchwheat, dog-grass, felt, grass (cough, pearl, 

 quick, quitch, scutch, shelly, skally, spear, squitch, three- 

 leaved, twitch, wicken), knotgrass, lonachies, needles, 

 quick, quicken, q wicks, quitch, rack, ronnachs, runch (?), 

 scryle, scutch, shear grass, sheep's cheese, sheep's sourack, 

 skoil, squitch, strap grass, stroil, twike, twitch, whickenins, 

 whicks, white couch-grass, wick, wickens, windlestraws, 

 wizzards, wrack, yawl. 



Tussilago farfara^ L. Ass's foot, bull-foot, clatter-clogs, clayt, 

 clay weed, cleats, clot, colt-herb, coltsfoot, cough wort, 

 coutfit, cow-heave, dishalaga, dove-dock, dummy weed, 

 floatweed, foalfoot, foilefoot, hog-weed, hoofs, horse-hoof, 

 horse-hove, son-before-the- father, sow foot, tushalan, 

 tushylucky gowan. 



Urtica dioica^ L. Naughty man's plaything, nettle, scaddie, 

 stinging nettle, stingy nettle, tenging nettle. 



Urtica urens, L. Burning nettle, dog nettle (?), ettle, small 

 nettle, stingy nettle. 



Valerianella olitoria, Mcench. Cornel-sallet, corn salad, lamb's 

 lettuce, milk grass, potherb, white potherb. 



Veronica agrestis, L. Chickweed, field speedwell, garden 

 speedwell, germander, germander chickweed, germander 

 speedwell, winter-weed. 



Veronica arvensis, L. Corn speedwell, wall speedwell. 



Veronica chamcedrys, L. Angel's-eyes, astro phell, base ver- 

 vain, billy bright-eye, bird's-eye, blue bird's-eye, blue eye, 

 blewart, blind flower, blue stars, bobby's eyes, bonny- 

 birdee, cat's-een, cat's-eyes, deil's flower, English treacle, 

 eyebright, flat vervain, forget-me-not, germander, ger- 

 mander speedwell, god's eye, lady's thimble, love-me-not, 

 milkmaid's eye, poor man's tea, remember me, speed- 

 well, wild germander, wish me well. 



Veronica hederoefotia, L. Bird's eye, botherum, corn speedwell, 

 dotherum, hen-bit, ivy chickweed, ivy-leaved speedwell, 

 morgeline, mother of wheat, winter-weed. 



Veronica serpyllifolia, L. Paul's betony, thyme-leaved speed- 

 well. 



Veronica tournefortii, Gmel. Bird's-eye, cat's-eyes, cuckoo's 

 leader, large field speedwell. 



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