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YOKE-ELM, the hornbeam, from yokes heing made of it, 

 Gr. Zwyia, Carpinus Betulus, L. 



YORKSHIRE SANICLE, the butterwort, from being, for its 

 healing qualities, called by Bauhin (Pin. 243) Sanicula, 

 and " growing so plentifully in Yorkshire," as Parkinson 

 tells us (Th. Bot. p. 534), Pinguicula vulgaris, L. 



YORNUT, YERNUT, or YENNTJT, in the Northern counties, 

 a dialectic pronunciation of Earthnut, Da. jord-nod, 



Bunium flexuosum, With. 



YOUTHWORT, A.S. eow%, a flock, and rotian, rot, mistaken 

 for wort, so called from its being supposed to bane sheep, 

 the red-rot, Drosera rotundifolia, L. 



