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far the more abundant is tlie Calhma vulgaris, or ling, and the 

 less abundant, but more bnautiful in flower, is the Erica Tetralix, 

 or heather bell ; lastly, the Erica cineraria, which is the rarest, 

 and prefers drier situations than the others. 



" Zf?2.y, provincially heath. Erica vulgaris. It is extensively 

 used for thatching and making besoms." Brockett. 



Apropos of besoms, these, some sixty or more years ago, were 

 made of ling or broom, and there used to be a Newcastle doggerel 

 song, or street cry, which on account of its quaintness is perhaps 

 worth preserving. It runs thus : — 



" Buy broom buzzums ! bu}' them wlien they're new ! 

 Buy broom buzzums ! better never grew ! " 



Examples : — 



Lyngy Hill — covered with ling or heath. West Ling. 



Gilling — This is not Gil -ling, but Gill-ing. " Gillingas — 

 Gilling in Yorkshire." Kemble's Saxons in England. There is 

 also Gillinga — Gillinga-ham, Gillingham, in Dorsetshire. Town 

 of the Gillings. 



Louts, East and West. 



'"'■ LiOfpa^ s Land, or Luppa's lonely lots. It has nothing to do 

 with hup, a wolf. Loppe, something cut oil from the rest. Lop- 

 ham, the lonely house, or the house of Loppa." Bell. 



I do not find lop)pe in Bosworth as something cut off from the 

 rest; loppe, in A.-S., Dan., and Sw. is the northern English lop, 

 a flea. Can Loups have been celebrated for its lops. 



Loppe is neither Welsh nor Gaelic. 



It is probably from the above personal name. 



Ltjne. 



Taylor says that " from the Gaelic all, white, we obtain al-aon, 

 or white afon." The Eomans Latinized this word into Alauna. 

 The Lancashire Alauna of the Romans is now the Lune ; and the 

 Warwickshire Alauna is the Aln, There is another Lune in 



