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12. Finally, however, I believe we may accept its Eng- 

 lish name of ' Butter wort ' as true Yorkshire, the more 

 enigmatic form of c Pigwilly ' preserving the tradition of 

 the flowers once abounding, with softened Latin name, 

 in Pigwilly bottom, close to Force bridge, by Kendal. 

 Gerarde draws the English variety as " Pinguicula sive 

 Sanicuia Eboracensis, Butterwoort, or Yorkshire Sani- 

 cle;" and he adds: "The husbandmen's wives of York- 

 shire do use to anoint the dugs of their kine with the fat 

 and oilous juice of the herb Butterwort when they be 

 bitten of any venomous worm, or chapped, rifted and 

 hurt by any other means." 



13. In Lapland it is put to much more certain use ; 

 "it is called Tiitgrass, and the leaves are used by the in- 

 habitants to make their ' tat miolk,' a preparation of milk 

 in common use among them. Some fresh leaves are laid 

 upon a filter, and milk, yet warm from the reindeer, is 

 poured over them. After passing quickly through the 

 filter, this is allowed to rest for one or two days until it 

 becomes ascescent,* when it is found not to have sepa- 

 rated from the whey, and yet to have attained much 

 greater tenacity and consistence than it would have done 

 otherwise. The Laplanders and Swedes are said to be 

 extremely fond of this milk, which when once made, it 

 is not necessary to renew the use of. the leaves, for we are 

 told that a spoonful of it will turn another quantity of 



* Lat. acesco, to turn sour. 



