32 POPULAR NAMES 



on bridles, and called so from its hard round fruit. 



Prunus communis, Huds. var. insititia, L. 



BULLOCK'S LUNGWORT, from its curative powers in the 

 pneumonia of bullocks, suggested, on the doctrine of sig- 

 natures, by the resemblance of its leaf to a dewlap ; see 

 MULLEIN. Verbascum Thapsus, L. 



BULL-FIST, L. bovista, Lycoperdon, L. 



BULLS AND Cows, more commonly called " Lords and 

 Ladies," the purple and the pale spadices, respectively, of 



Arum maculatum, L. 



BULL'S-FOOT, from the shape of the leaf, the more 

 commonly called coltsfoot, Tussilago Farfara, L. 



BULL-WEED, from O.E. boll, any globular body, such as 

 the seed-vessel of flax, Dan. bold, a ball, It. palla, Gr. 

 TraXXa, the knapweed, so called from its globular invo- 

 lucre, Centaurea nigra, L. 



BULL-WORT, properly pool-wort, from its growing in or 

 near pools, Scrophularia, L. 



also, in Gerarde, for the same reason, Ammi majus, L. 



BULRUSH, formerly spelt pole-rush, the pool-rush, jonc 

 d'eau, A.S. ea-risc, from its growing in pools of water, and 

 not, like the other rushes, in mire, Scirpus lacustris, L. 



BULL-SEGG, the poolrsegg or -sedge, the reed-mace, 



Typha latifolia, L. 



BUMBLEKITES, the blackberry, from Scot, kyte, belly, as 

 in the " Wife of Auchtermuchty " : 



" The deil cut aff thair hands, quoth he, 

 That cramm'd your kytes sae strute yestreen !" 



and bumble, applied in Chaucer, 1. 6554, to the voice of the 

 bittern ; from the rumbling and bumbling caused in the 

 bellies of children who eat its fruit too greedily, 



Rubus fruticosus, L. 



BURDOCK, a name that, properly speaking, is a pleonasm; 

 for bur and dock both meant originally, the one in French, 

 and the other in the Germanic languages, a flock or lump 



