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Gloss. B. 3. ‘From a Lat. word, brance, tLat occurs in Pliny, 1, 
xviii. c. 7, where it seems rather to mean a barley The 
word will he identical with blanc, white. Port, hranco, and equivalent 
to wheat, which properly means “ white. ” ’ — Prior, p. 28. See quota- 
tion under Buck. 
Brasselty-buttons (a corruption of Bachelor’s B.). LDcJmis diurna, 
Sibth.— Hal. 
Brassies. Sinapis arvensis, L. — Yhs. (Whitby). ‘The name is 
derived from the fact that in old Latin leases in the East Eiding, and 
doubtless elsewhere, the plant in question is termed Brassica. Condi- 
tions were customarily introduced into such documents in medifeval 
times that the Brassicce should be duly kept down in the land let.’ — 
E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 4, p. 158. 
Brassock. Sinapis arvensis, L. (Cfr.) — Yks. (Holderness, E. D. S. 
Gloss. 0. 7 ; hrassocMng, weeding out brassocks, id. ; Whitby (Braz- 
zocks), E. D. S. Gloss. C. 2). See Brassies. 
Brawlins. (1) Arctostapliylos Uva-ursi, L. — N. Scotl. Jamieson; 
Forfarsh. FI. Forf. 
(2) ‘ The name is sometimes applied to the fruit of the Vaccinium 
Vitis-Idoea. Gael, hraoilag denotes a whortleberry.’ — N. Scotl. 
Jamieson. 
Brawn. (1) Same as Brancorn, which see. — W. of Enej. Hal. Wr. 
(2) Holme speaks of a fungus (perhaps a Lycoperdon or Tnher) as 
‘ the Puffe or Brawne of the earth, growing most under ground.’ — 
Holme, Acad, of Armory, ii. 55. 
Brazzocks. See Brassock. 
Bread, Cuckoo’s. (1) Oxalis Aeetosella, L. — With. 
(2) Cardamine pratensis, L. — Dev. 
Bread-and-Cheese. (1) The young leaves and shoots of Cmtcegns 
Oxyacantha, L. , which are very generally eaten by children in spring. 
Bucks., Camb., dies., N. Ess., Hants., Lane. (E. D. S. Lane. Gloss.), 
Midd., Norf., Notts., Sujf., Suss., Wilts., Wore., (Dumfries). 
(2) The fruits of Malva sylvestris, L. , which are thought by children 
to resemble cheeses in shape and flavour. See Cheeses. N. Line. 
E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 6; Yks. 
(3) Oxalis Aeetosella, L. — Dev. (Teignmouth) ; N. Lane. E. D. S- 
Lane. Gloss. 
(4) Bumex Acetosa, L. — Dev. 
Bread and Cheese, Cuckoo’s. (1) Oxalis Aeetosella, L. — S.W. 
Cumb., Lane. Cuckoo Bread and Cheese, Oumb. E. D. S. Gloss. 
C. 8. 
(2) Cratcegus Oxyacantha, L. — Suss. 
Bread-and-Milk. Cardamine pratensis, L. — ‘May be simply ex- 
plained by the associations connected with the old custom among 
country people of having bread-and-milk for breakfast about the 
season when this flower first comes in ’ (!) — Wilkinson. 
Breakbones. Stellaria LLolostea, L. — dies. (Cheadle). 
