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A DICTIONARY OF 
Broad Bent. Psamma arenaria, E. & S. — Shetland, Edmonston 
MS. ; not Scotland generally, as stated at p. 38. 
Broad Clover. Trifolium x>ratense,\j . — Wight, 
Broad Kelk. Heracleum Sphondijlium, L. — N. Tks. Erom the 
large leaves, Kelk being an equivalent of Keck. In Country Life, 
1868, p. 25, Broad-leaved Kelk. 
Broad Leaf. Plantago major, L. — Ches. 
Broad-leaved Elm. See Elm. 
Brockellhempe. See Broklembe. 
Brockles. Juncus squarrosus, L. — ‘ On the hills of Scotland.’ — 
Country, Sept. 10, 1874. See Bruckles. 
Brokeleak. ‘ The water dock.’ — Hal. Wr. 
Broklembe. ‘ The herb orpin. \_Sedwn Telephium, L.] It is the 
translation of Faharia in MS. Sloane 5, f. 5. Spelt hroklemp in Arch. 
XXX. 405.’ — Hal. There is some error here ; Veronica Beccahunga is the 
plant called Brooklime now and also by the old herbalists ; and Mr. 
Cockayne (Leechdoms, hi. 316) glosses Broclempe (‘properly Broclemke’) 
as that plant. In Markham’s English Housewife’s Houshold Physicke 
(1637), p. 23, it is spelt Brockellhempe. 
Bromegrass. A book-name for the species of Bromus, invented by 
Stillingfleet (Obs. on Grasses). 
Brookbean. Menyanthes trifoliata, L. — Treas. Bot. 
Brook Betony. See Betony. 
Brooklime. (1) Generally applied to Veronica Beccahunga, L. — 
Prior (p. 29) does not give the origin of the word, and Skinner’s three 
solutions do not throw much light on it. He says : ‘ Vel q. d. Brook- 
slime, quia sc. coenoso solo gaudet : vel quasi Brook-line, quia ad 
margines fossarum crescit, easque instar fimbriae investit; vel ab 
A.S. Urn, Belg. Him, Teut. lesm, gluten viscum, & dicto Brook, quia 
marginibus rivorum adhaeret.’ Lyte, Wr. ; W, Ches. ; JDerhy ; S. 
Dev. ; Hants. (New Forest) ; Suff. ; N. Yks. 
(2) The large form of Nasturtium officinale, L. {N. siifolium, Reich.). 
— Bucks. (Buckingham), where it is considered quite distinct from true 
watercress. 
(3) Helosciadium nodi forum, Koch. — Wartv. This may be what 
Ruskin (Modern Painters, v. part 9, chap. ii. § 12) alludes to as ‘ the 
common weed something like water-cress, but with a serrated leaf,’ 
which he says is called Brooklime in Derbyshire. 
Brook Mint. Memtha. hirsuta, L. — Lyte, Wr. ; Cockayne, ii. 373, 
hi. 316. 
Brook-tongue [BrocjOung]. Cicuta virosa, L. — Cockayne, hi. 316. 
Brook-weed. A common book-name for Samolus Valerandi, L. — 
Prior, p. 29. 
