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A DICTIONARY OP 
Bachelor’s Buttons, White. (1) Lychnis vespertlna, Sibth. — 
Deering’s Cat. Stirpium ; Suff. 
(2) Ranunculus aconitifoUus, I-. — Ayrsh, 
Bachelor’s Buttons, Yellow. The double-flowered garden variety of 
Ranunculus acris, L. — Ayrsh. 
Backwort. Symplujtiim officincde, L. — Ger. Index. Hal. A prepar- 
ation of the roots is ‘ a most excellent medicine against ... all 
paines and consumptions of the backe:’ Ger, 661, where the name 
is printed Blackwoort (which see), as it is also in Ger. Emac. 807. — 
Hal. 
Baclin. Bidens cernua, L. — Hants.; Pulteney’s MS. in British 
Museum Herbarium. 
Bacon-weed. See Biacon-weed. 
Badderlocks. Alaria esculenta, Grev. ; Scotl. (Mearns) ; Jamieson. 
‘ Clearly a corruption of Balderlocks, or the locks of Balder, a Scan- 
dinavian deity, to whom other plants have been dedicated.’ — Treas. 
Bot. See Baiderbrae. 
Badman-oatmeal, ^the flowers of the hemlock. ’ — Yks. (Holderness) ; 
E. D. S. Gloss. C. 7 ; but probably Anthriscus sylvestris, Hoflm., is 
intended, which is often popularly called ‘ hemlock.’ The ‘ bad man ’ 
= the devil : see Devil’s Oatmeal and DeiPs Meal. 
Bad Man’s Bread. Bunhim flexuosum, With. — Yks. 
Bad Man’ Posies. Lamium piupiireum, L. — Nhumb. 
Badmoney. ‘The plant Gentian.’ Boxh., Jamieson. See Bald- 
money. 
Baffiners. Ranumidus acris, L. ; R. hidhosus, L. ; R. repens, L. ; Cul- 
peper. Probably a misprint for Bassinet (which see). 
Bairnwort. (1) Beilis p)er emits, L. — Yks. Wr. ; E. D. S. Gloss. B 2. 
Hal. Perhaps because children gather it ; but an older name is Banwort 
(which see), of which it probably is a form. 
(2) ‘ Some say violets also.’ — Yks. (Whitby) ; E. D. S. Gloss. C. 2. 
Baldar Herb. ‘The Amaranthus,’ Huloet; Hal. YYr. This is doubt- 
less A as liypocliondriacus, L. , of which Turner (Lib.) says, 
‘ quibusdam flos amoris, galhs est passevelutum angHs autem BaldareJ 
Baldemoyne (in Treveris, Baldymony). ‘ Gentian.’ MS. Sloane. 
Hal. Gentiana Amarella, L. Ger. Appx. 
Balder Brae, or Balder’s Brae. Antliemis Cohda,Y. — Nhumh.; i.e. 
Baldur’s brow, in reference to the white brow of Baldur, the popular 
northern diwnity. The name is given to A. Cotula in Sweden, and to 
Fyrethrum inodorum in Iceland. The Prose Edda, speaking of Baldur, 
says — ‘ So fair and dazzling is he in form and features that rays of light 
seem to issue from him ; and thou mayst have some idea of his beauty 
when I tell thee that the whitest of all plants is called Baldur’s brow.’ 
— See N. & Q. 4. ix. 159, 210, 269, 348; and Cockayne, iii. xxxi. 
Balderry. Orchis latifolia, L. — Scotl. Jamieson. 
