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A DICTIONARY OF 
Brown Cress. Nasturtium officinale, L. — Ger. 
Brown Mint. Mentha viridis, L. — Ger. 
Brown Net. Scrophularia nodosa, L. — i. e. Brown Nettle, the 
leaves being ‘ very like unto nettell leaves.’ — Lyte. Dev. 
Brownwort. (1) Scrophidaria aquatica, L. — Turn. Herb. Comic. 
‘ From tbe colour of tbe stalks,’ Coles, A. in E. ; ‘ tbe Ducbe men 
name it Braunwurtz,’’ Turn. Herb. Turner confines tbe name as in 
actual use to 5. aquatica, but says S. nodosa ‘ maye be called in Eng- 
bsb wood brounwurt.’ Johnson includes both species under the 
name ; and Lyte assigns it to S. nodosa. 
(2) Cockayne (Leecbdoms, u. 374) also assigns tbe name to Prunella 
vulgaris, L. 
(3) Cockayne considers tbe Brownwort of Saxon times to have been 
also Asplenium Ceterach, L. See Leecbdoms, i. 159, ii. 374, iii. 316. 
Bruckles. Juncus squarrosus, 1 j . — Ahei'd. ‘ A word most expressive 
of tbe wire-bke hardness and rigidity of tbe species.’ — Bbyt. iii. 979. 
Bruisewort. (1) Beilis perennis, L.— Trev. ‘ The leaves stamped 
taketb away bruses and swellings if they be laide thereon, whereupon 
it was called in olde time Bruiseworte.’ Ger. 512. Spelt also Bruse- 
wort and (in Cockayne, iii. 316) Briswort; in Ger. Appx. Broose- 
wort. Prior, p. 30. 
(2) Saponaria officinalis, L. — Ger. Index. ‘ Quia ad contusiones 
utibs credita est,’ — Skinner. Prior, p. 30. 
(3) It would appear from Cockayne, iii. 316, that Symphytum offi- 
cinale, L., was so called in A-S. 
Bruklempe. ^ Tbe herb orpin.’ — Wr. See Broklembe. 
Brum. Galium verum, L. — Sal. (Stokesay). 
Brumble. Ruhus fruticosus, L. — Norf. ; Suffi. Moor. 
Brumble-berries. Ruhus fruticosus, L. — North, Hal. 
Brume-cow. A Scotch name for some plant which we cannot 
identify. See Gard. Cbron., Aug. 19, 1876, 247. 
Brumleyberry Bush. Ruhus fruticosus, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. 
In Yks. (Wensleydale), Brumleys. 
Brummel, or Brummie (or in the plural Brummies). Ruhus fruti- 
cosus, L,, more particularly tbe fruit. Hants. Hal.; Yks. (gen.); 
Beriv. Bot. E. Bord. ; Moray. In E. D. S. Gloss. C. 2 {Yks. ’Whitby), 
we find ‘ Brummel-nooas'd, pimpled like a blackberry. “A hrummel- 
nooas’d yal-swab,” an inveterate ale-drinker, with tbe signs of bis 
propensities upon bis nose.’ Tbe fruit is called Brummel-lDerries in 
Beriv., Bot. E. Bord. ; and tbe shrub in tbe same work is styled 
Brummleberry-busb. 
Brummelkites. Fruit of Ruhus fridicosus, L. — Cumh. E. D. S. Gloss. 
C. 8. 
Brunei. Prunella vulgaris, L. — Ger. A modification of Brunella, 
the Latin name (now more frequently but less correctly written 
Prunella), which took its rise from tbe German die Braune, an 
