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bed-at-noon, Joseph's flower, nap-at-noon, noon-flower, 

 noontide, shepherd's clock, sleep-at-noon, star of Jerusa- 

 lem. 



Triticum repens, L. (= Agrof>yron repens, BeauvJ]. Cooch, 

 couch, couchwheat, dog-grass, felt, grass (cough, pearl, 

 quick, quitch, scutch, shelly, skally, spear, squitch, three- 

 leaved, twitch, wicken), knotgrass, lonachies, needles, 

 quick, quicken, q wicks, quitch, rack, ronnachs, runch (?), 

 scryle, scutch, shear grass, sheep's cheese, sheep's sourack, 

 skoil, squitch, strap grass, stroil, twike, twitch, whickenins, 

 whicks, white couch-grass, wick, wickens, windlestraws, 

 wizzards, wrack, yawl. 



Tussilagofarfara, L. Ass's foot, bull-foot, clatter-clogs, clayt, 

 clayweed, cleats, clot, colt-herb, coltsfoot, coughwort, 

 coutfit, cow-heave, dishalaga, dove-dock, dummy weed, 

 floatweed, foalfoot, foilefoot, hog-weed, hoofs, horse-hoof, 

 horse-hove, son-before-the- father, sow foot, tushalan, 

 tushylucky gowan. 



Urtica dioica, L. Naughty man's plaything, nettle, scaddie, 

 stinging nettle, stingy nettle, tenging nettle. 



Urtica urens, L. Burning nettle, dog nettle (?), ettle, small 

 nettle, stingy nettle. 



Valerianella olitoria, Mcench. Cornel-sallet, corn salad, lamb's 

 lettuce, milk grass, potherb, white potherb. 



Veronica agrestis, L. Chickweed, field speedwell, garden 

 speedwell, germander, germander chickweed, germander 

 speedwell, winter-weed. 



Veronica arvensis, L. Corn speed v/ell, wall speedwell. 



Veronica chamcedrys, L. Angel's-eyes, astrophell, base ver- 

 vain, billy bright-eye, bird's-eye, blue bird's-eye, blue eye, 

 blewart, blind flower, blue stars, bobby's eyes, bonny- 

 birdee, cat's-een, cat's-eyes, deil's flower, English treacle, 

 eyebright, flat vervain, forget-me-not, germander, ger- 

 mander speedwell, god's eye, lady's thimble, love-me-not, 

 milkmaid's eye. poor man's tea, remember me, speed- 

 well, wild germander, wish me well. 



Veronica hedercefolia, L. Bird's eye, botherum, corn speedwell, 

 dotherum, hen-bit, ivy chickweed, ivy-leaved speedwell, 

 morgeline, mother of wheat, winter-weed. 



Veronica serpytlifolia, L. Paul's betony, thyme-leaved speed- 

 well. 



Veronica tournefortii, Gmel. Bird's-eye, cat's-eyes, cuckoo's 

 leader, large field speedwell. 



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