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Ger. heide ; Dut. lie'i, leng ; Flem. hei., heide. 



Hoith, not ling, in Lye or in Boswortli. 



Wei. grug, heath, ling i Gael, fraoch, langa. 



Iv.fraoeh; M.Q.11-K freoagh ; Com. grig. 



Bret, gruk, grug, heather. 



Lat. erica ; It. erica; Sp. irezo ; Port, urze, hrusco ; Er. hruyere. 



Gr. ipeiKT}. 



Ling is an Icel. and Suio-Goth. word, the same in Sw. as in 

 Suio-Goth. and preserved also in Dan., Dut., and Flem. The 

 Gael, langa may have been got from the Scandinavians. 



'' JSruiera, hruera, briers or other brushwood, heath. In Bp. 

 Langley's Eegister it is thus explained : ' Bruera nostra vulgo 

 dicta lyng.' " 



''Zing, heath, furze." Halliwell. 



" Zing, lyng. Eng. the Calluna of Botany. Where it occurs 

 in the middle of a name, it is a particle denoting possession." 

 Edmunds. 



'■'■Zing. 1. a species of grass; 2. pull ling or cotton grass. 

 Johnson renders ling, heath, although from the authority he 

 gives it is evidently different. It is used in the same sense. 

 N"orth England." 



"■Zing. 1. a species of grass; 2. drawling. Scirpus ccespi- 

 pitosus, Linn, and pull ling." Agric. Survey, Ayrshire. 



" This seems indeed the primary and proper use. Isl. ling, 

 erica, parva virgulta proferentia baccas. G. Andr., p. 167. 



' ' Zing, in Berwickshire, denotes heath of the first year, when 

 it has the form of long thin grass. Afterwards it is called 

 heather. The shepherds speak of Heather Bells, Bent and Ling, 

 in distinction from each other." Jamieson's Suppl. 



" Ling may be the same as link. Halliwell has Links, Sand- 

 hills. North." 



In our north-east country, links are sandhills by the seaside, 

 on which 'bent grass' grows, but not ling, erica. Bent grass is 

 one of the Graminete, and its botanical name is Elymus arenarius, 

 called iu the south, Lyme grass. 



On damp moory places in Northumberland and Durham there 

 are three species of heath, two growing commonly together ; by 



