ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Blind Man’s Een. The same as Blind Man’s Ball (which see). — 
ScoU. Jamieson. 
Blind Nettle. A name given to many labiate plants having leaves 
resembhng those of the nettle, but which do not sting. 
(1) Various species of Lamium, especially L. albiimy L. — Grete 
Herball, Lyte (spelt Nettell), and in frequent modern use. Prior, 
p. 24. 
(2) Stachys sylvatica, L. — Lyte. 
(3) Galeopsis Tetrahit, L. — Dev. E. D. S. Gloss. B. 6 ; Hal. Wr. 
Blind Weed. Gapsella Bursa-pastoris, L. — YJcs. (Northallerton). 
Blindy Buffs. Papamr Rhceas, L. — Yh?,. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 5. See 
Blind Eyes. 
Blinking Chickweed. Montia fontana, L. — Prior, p. 25. 
Blinks. Montia fontana^ L. — Prior, p. 25. 
Blister-plant. Buttercups, especially Ranunculus acris^ L. : used by 
the ‘ herb women ’ for blisters. — Line. 
Blisterwort. Ranunculus scelemtus, L. — Lyte’s MS. in a copy of 
Dodoen’s Histoire des Plantes (Bibl. Mus. Brit., 442, h. 9,). 
Blite. A name assigned in books to various species of Atriplex and 
other Chenopodiacese. Prior (p. 25) refers it to Chenopodium Bonus- 
Ilenricus, L., from Lat. Uitum, Gr. (iXirov, insipid. 
Blithran. Potentilla anserina, L. — Irelcmd (Co. Louth). This is 
no doubt a form of the original Irish name, which is given by Threl- 
keld as hrisclan. 
Blob. (1) ‘A term applied to the flower of the water ranunculus.’ 
Wr. Caltlia paliistris, L. (which is called Horse-blob and May- 
blob in Leic., and Horse-blob and Water-blob in Nha7np., Wr., 
and Mare-blobs, Prior, p. 145), is probably here intended ; or pos- 
sibly Nuphar liitea, Sm., as Hal. says, ‘ Water -blobs are water-lilies.’ 
Blob signifies a bubble or bhster, and blub (adj.), swollen, plump, 
or round (Wr.) ; terms which would apply equally well to the round 
flowers of the Caltlia or the Nuphar. Jamieson defines the word 
as ‘ anything tumid or circular.’ 
(2) ‘ A large gooseberry ; so called from its globular form, or from 
the softness of its skin.’ — Jamieson. 
(3) The fiowers of Digitalis puipurea, L. — ‘ In Suffolk and Essex 
they are called Blobs, because the children pull off a flower, and with 
the fingers of one hand closing up the mouth, and giving the other 
end a slap, it bursts with a noise like the word blob.^ — Erancis’s Little 
English Elora, p. 124 (1842). 
Block- wheat. Polygonum Fagopyrum, L. — Hal. 
Blodewort. Polygonum PDgdropipjcr, L. — Grete Herball. 
Blood Cups. Peziza coccinea, L. — Buss. Erom their crimson colour. 
Blood Hilder {i. e. Blood Elder). Samlmcus Ehidiis, L. — Norf., 
where ‘ it is believed to have been brought over by the Danes, and 
planted on the battle-fields and graves of their countrymen.’ — Cock- 
ayne, iii. xxxij. Of. Dane’s-blood. 
