1896] POPULAR AMERICAN PLANT-NAMES 485 
Ambrosia trifida, L., horseweed, Sulphur Grove, Ohio. 
Anaphalis margaritacea, Benth. and Hook., ladies’ tobacco, Hart- 
ford, Me. : 
Antennaria plantaginifolia, Hook., love’s test,! Ind. - 
dogs’ toes (staminate flowers), Au- 
burndale, Mass. 
pussies’ toes (pistillate flowers), 
Auburndale, Mass. 
mouse’s ear, Oxford County, Me. 
poverty weed, Paris, Me. 
four toes, mouse-ear, pearly ever- 
lasting, Salem, Mass. 
Anthemis Cotula, DC., chigger weed, Ind. 
balders, (from Hardinge’s ‘With the Wild 
Flowers ”’). : : 
Arctium Lappa, L., buzzies, Southold, L. I. . 
Aster cordifolius, L., tongue, So. Berwick, Me. 
Aster Nove-Anglig, L., Michaelmas daisy, hardy aster, Sulphur 
Grove, Ohio. 
Aster (all forms), frost weed, Paris, Me. 
frost flowers, N. H. 
Aster (native species), daisies, Sulphur Grove, Ohio. 
Aster (cultivated varieties), fall roses, Sulphur Grove, Ohio. 
Bidens Beckii, Torr., water marigold, St. Louis County, Mo. 
Bidens frondosa, L.., old ladies’ clothes-pins, Mass. 
Bidens frondosa, L., cernua, L., and connata, Muhl., beggars’ ticks, 
Paris, Me. 
: pitchforks, Rumford, Me. 
Bigelovia venata, Gray, rheumatic plant,? damiana (Span.); Cal. 
Centaurea Cyanus, L., French pink, Sulphur Grove, Ohio, Ala. 
ragged robin, Ohio, Baltimore, Md. 
barbeau,! Louisiana. 
Centaurea Melitensis, L., pasture weed, tocolote, Cal. 
Chrysopsis villosa, Nutt., rosinwood, No. Dak. 
Cichorium Intybus, L., wild bachelors’ buttons, Worcester, Mass. 
ragged sailors, blue daisies, Southold, L. I. 
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ae thought of, and the ends are pulled apart. 
=a long, the affection is supposed to be propo sere 
the st y naming both ends, when the relative length of the 
2 ‘Tonger love. 
a called because supposed to harbor the “ chigger. 
3 ys under the skin. 
; oucinal, cure for rheumatism. 
Barb, name common along the Mississip 
a au, who brought it from France. 
rtionate. Sometimes this is 
a troublesome mite which 
pia generation and more ago, from a M. 
