20 POPULAR NAMES 



be an accidental coincidence, and the name of the grass to 

 have been taken from its place of growth, as in the case of 

 heath, brake, and brier, and not the ground called so from 

 the grass. Under the name of Bent are comprised Agrostis 

 vulgaris, L. Triticum junceum, L. Arundo arenaria, L. 

 and many more. 



BERGAMOT, a name popularly given to a common garden 

 plant, Monarda fistulosa, L. 



BERTRAM, a corruption of L. pyrethrum, that seems to 

 have been adopted from German writers, 



P. Parthenium, L. 



BERRY ALDER, a buckthorn that was once wrongly 

 associated with the alders, and distinguished from them 

 by bearing berries, Rhamnus Frangula, L. 



BETONY or WOOD BETONY, L. betonica, said by Pliny to 

 have been first called Vettonica from the Vettones, a people 

 of Spain, B. officinalis, L. 



WATER-, from similarity of leaf to that of the 

 wood betony, Scrophularia aquatica, L. 



BIFOIL, the tway-blade, L. bifolium, two-leaf, 



Listera ovata, R.B. 



BIG, O.N. bygg, a name of Scandinavian origin applied 

 in our northern counties and Scotland to the six-rowed 

 variety of barley, and according to Holmboe (v. bygg}, 

 unquestionably related to bua, dwell, whence byggia, till, 

 as being the grain most commonly cultivated in high lati- 

 tudes, Hordeum, L. 



BIGOLD, tinsel, false gold, applied to a weed that is not 

 the genuine Qolde, Chrysanthemum segetum, L. 



BILBERRY or BULBERRY, Da. bollebdr, dark-berry, from 

 567, dark, Vaccinium Myrtillus, L. 



BIND-WEED, a weed that binds, 



Convolvulus arvensis, and sepium, L. 

 BLACK-, Polygomim Convolvulus, L. 



