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with its culture from the Dutch.—lIt is a tender plant, and must be 
sown late.-—M. It is also very proper to sow it (bucke) before 
wheat, the ground is made clean and fine by it, and it sufficing 
itself with a Froth leaves the solid Strength for the Wheat.—T.R. 
(May). Polygonum Fagopyrum, Linn. 
“* Brank ’=buckwheat, from a Latin word, drance, that occurs in 
Pliny lib. xviii. cap. 7, where it seems rather to mean a barley. 
“‘ Galliz quoque suum genus farris dedere, quod illic drance vocant, 
apud nos sandalam, nitidissimi grani.”” The word will be identical 
with d/anc, white, Port. dranco, and equivalent to wheat, which pro- 
perly means ‘‘ white.’”—Popular Names of British Plants, Dr. R. A. 
Prior, 1870, p. 28. Pancakes are made of it in Holland.—T.R. 
51. 15. Pidgeons, Rooks, and other Vermine, about that time 
begin to be scanted, and will certainly find them [peas] out, be 
they in never so by a Corner.—T.R. (May). 
51. 16. Fimble, or Female Hemp, so called, I suppose, because 
it falls to the Female’s share to /ew-/aw it, that is, to dress it and to 
spin it, etc. The Fimble Hemp is that which is ripe soonest and 
fittest for spinning, and is not worth above half as much as the 
Carle with its seed.—T.R. ‘“‘The male is called Charle Hempe, and 
Winter Hempe; the Female Barren Hempe and Sommer Hempe.” — 
Gerard’s Herball, p. 572. ‘‘ Hemp was much cultivated here until 
the end of the great war with France. The Ca7/ or male hemp was 
used for ropes, sackcloth, and other coarse manufactures: the 
jimble, or female hemp, was applied to making sheets and other 
domestic purposes.”—Peacock’s Gloss. of Manley, etc., E. D. Soc. 
It is curious that the Karl or male hemp should be in reality the 
female plant, but other authors use the names in the same way. 
“The femell hempe . . . . beareth no sede.” —Fitzherbert, ‘‘ Boke 
of Husbandry.” See also 55. 8. Gerard says the female hemp is 
‘‘barren and without seede, contrarie to the nature of that sexe.” — 
Note by Mr. J. Britten. 
51. 17. The fact of the Hop being one of the plants which twine 
from left to right had thus been observed as early as Tusser’s time. 
—Note by Mr. J. Britten. 
51. 19. The tine tare [‘‘a tare that /7zes or encloses and im- 
prisons other plants, Viera hirsuta.” —Prior] is now seldom attempted 
to be raked out, for fear of greater mischief from the practice than 
from its neglect. The safest way is certainly to cut the tine near 
the root, but the operation is extremely tedious.—M. 
51. 21. ‘The Fawy riseth in Fawy moore in a verie guaue mire, 
on the side of an hill.”—Harrison, ed. 1587, Bk. i. c. 12. 
Cf. “The wal wagged.and clef, and al the worlde guaved.”— 
Piers Plowman, ed. Skeat, B Text, Passus xviii. 61. 
“‘Quave of a myre (quaue as of a myre), Ladima. Quavyn, as myre, 
Tremo.”—Prompt. Parv. Horman, in his chapter de re edificatorid, 
observes that “a guauery or a maris and unstable foundation must 
