ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Box, Flowering. Vaccinium Vitis-Idcea, L. — Ches. (in gardens), 
from the resemblance of its leaves to those of box. 
Box, Prickly. Ruscus aculeatus, L. — Lyte. 
Box Holly. Ruscus acuJeatus, L. — Baxter. Prior, p. 27. 
Boyds, or Black-boyds. Ruhus fruticosus, L. — TF. Scotl. Jamieson. 
Boy’s Love. A^'temisia Ahrotanum, L. — West, Hal. Wr. ; Dev.; 
Dors. Dors. Gloss.; Som. Jennings; Pulman; Prior, p. 27. 
Boy’s Mercury. The female plant of Mercurialis annua, L., which 
was supposed by Lyte and other old writers to be the male plant. A 
similar confusion prevailed with regard to other species (see Carl 
Hemp). This name (like Baron’s Mercury, which on p. 26 we 
have inadvertently referred to the ‘male plant of M. perennis^) is a 
mere translation from the Greek, and refers to an old belief that when 
‘ dronken [it] causeth to engender male children.’ — Lyte, p. 78. 
Bozzom, or Bozzum. (1) Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum, L. — 
Wight, FI. Yect. 
(2) Chrysanthemum segetum, L. — Wight, Hal. Wr. 
Bozzum, Yellow. Chrysanthemum segetum, L. — Wight, FI. Vect. 
Bracken, or Brecken, the plural of Brake, q. v. Ferns generally, 
especiallj’- the larger kinds, and perhaps more particularly Pteris 
aquilina, L. — Hal, Wr. Cumb. ; Y%s. ; E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. ; Scotl. 
Jamieson (spelt Brachen, Braikin, and Brecken); Inverness; Moray, 
FI. M. ; Antrim and Down. Turner (Lib.), under Filix-mas, says, 
‘ Angli a Feme aut a hrak aut a bracond and (Names) says of Pteris, 
‘ The northerne men cal [it] a bracon.^ Prior, p. 27. 
Bracken, French. Osmunda regalis, L. — Cooke’s Fern Book for 
Everybody. 
Bracken, Lady. ‘The female fern. Dumfr., Roxhd — Jamieson, 
who intends Pteris aquilina, L., by this name. 
Bracken, Royal. ‘ Osmunda regalis, L., or rather Pteris aquilina.' 
Scotl. Jamieson, who spells it Brackens. 
Bracken, Sweet. Myrrhis odorata, Scop. — Cumb. E. D. S. Gloss. 
C. 8. From its aromatic fragrance, and the resemblance of its leaves 
to those of fern or bracken. 
Brackins, Fearn. Nephrodium Filix-mas, Rich., and allied species. 
— Cumb. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 8. 
Bragger. ‘The broad leaves of Wo, Alga marina d — Western Isles, 
Jamieson. We are uncertain what seaweed is here intended. 
Brain-leaf. ‘Apparently a kind of herb. It is mentioned in 
Greene’s Gwydonius, 1593.’ — Hal. 
Brake, or Brakes. Pteris aquilina, L., and other large ferns. — 
Turner, Lyte, Ger., Hal. Wr. North. Grose; East (usually confined 
to Pteris), Forby; Nhumb.; Suff. Moor; Suss. Parish; E. Bord. Bot. 
E. Bord. Cockayne, hi. 315. See Bracken. Prior, p. 27. 
