26 POPULAR NAMES 



Blue-blaw is therefore a tautology, and means "blue-blue." 

 Its Scotch name, blaivort, is a better one. 



Centaurea Cyanus, L. 



BLUE-BOTTLE, from the bottle shape of the involucre, 

 and its brilliant blue flower, Centaurea Cyanus, L. 



BLUE-CAPS, from its tuft of blue flowers, 



Scabiosa succisa, L. and Knautia arvensis, Coult. 



BOG ASPHODEL, Narthecium ossifragum, Hud. 



BOG- BEAN, either a translation of Fr. trefle des marais, 

 or a fancied correction of its proper name, buck-bean, 



Menyanthes trifoliata, L. 



BOG-BERRY, or BOG-WORT, the cranberry, 



Vaccinium Oxycoccos, L. 



BOG FEATHERFOIL, from its finely divided feathery leaves, 

 or foils, the water violet, Hottonia palustris, L. 



BoG-Moss, Sphagnum, L. 



BOG MYRTLE, or DUTCH MYRTLE, an evergreen aromatic 

 shrub with some general resemblance to a myrtle, and 

 abundant in peat-mosses, Myrica Gale, L. 



BOG-RUSH, Schoenus, L. 



BOG VIOLET, the butterwort, 



Pinguicula vulgaris, L. 



BOLBONAC, from the Arabic, Lunaria biennis, L. 



BOLT, Pr. Pin. bolte, petilium, tribulum, 



Ranunculus, L. 



BOODLE, see BUDDLE, Chrysanthemum segetum, L. 



BORAGE, Fr. bourache, M.Lat. borago, of which Apu- 

 leius says, that its former name was " corrago, quia cordis 

 affectibus medetur," a word that the herbalists suppose to 

 have become, by change of c to b, borrago. It is probably 

 a Latinized Oriental name brought with the plant from 

 Syria. B. officinalis, L. 



BORE-COLE, in Tusser BORE, according to Hettema, in 

 Philol. Trans. 1858, from Du. boerekool, peasant cabbage, 

 Brassica oleracea, L. v. fimbriata. 



