24 POPULAR NAMES 



of its rind at the time of flowering, in contrast with that 

 of the white-thorn, Prunua spinosa, L. 



BLACK-WORTS, whortle-berries, from their dark colour as 

 compared with the cow- and cranberry, 



Vaccinium Myrtillus, L. 

 BLADDER CAMPION, from its inflated calyx, 



Silene inflata, L. 

 BLADDER- PERN, from its bladder-like indusium, 



Cystopteris fragilis, Bern. 



BLADDER HERB, the winter cherry, which was supposed, 

 from its inflated calyx, to " cleanse the bladder, and open, 

 scour, and purge, the urinal passages," 



Physalis Alkekengi, L. 

 BLADDER-NUT, from its inflated seedpods, 



Staphylea pinnata, L. 



BLADDER-SNOUT, from the shape of the corolla, and 

 BLADDER-WORT, from the vesicles on its leaves, 



Utricularia vulgaris, L. 



BLEABERRY, or BLAEBERRY, from, blae, a word that in 

 our northern counties means "of a livid or pale-bluish 

 colour," Atk. Clevel. Dial. Vaccinium uliginosum, L. 



BLEEDING HEART, the name of the wallflower in the 

 western counties, more particularly the dark variety of it, 

 and apparently dating from a time when in its ordinary 

 state it was called Heart's ease, 



Cheiranthus Cheiri, L. 



BLESSED THISTLE, a thistle so called, like other plants 

 which bear the specific name of " blessed," from its sup- 

 posed power of counteracting the effect of poison, 



Carduus benedictus, L. 



BLIND NETTLE, called so from the resemblance of its 

 leaves to those of a stinging nettle, and their not harming 

 or seeming to notice any body ; whence in most languages 

 it bears a name that implies dead, deaf, or blind ; 



Lamium album, L. 



