ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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‘ infirmitie among soldiers that lie in campe ’ described by Gerard 
(p. 508) ; this appears to have been a kind of quinsey, attended with 
other symptoms, for which the Prunella was deemed a specific. 
Brusewort. See Bruisewort. 
Brushes. (1) Centaurea Cyanus, L. — Sllrlitig. 
(2) Dipsacus syluestris, L. — Line. 
Brushes, Barber’s. See Barber’s B. 
Brushes, Beggar. See Beggar B. 
Brushes, Devil’s. See Devil’s B. 
Brushes, Sweep’s. Dipsacus sylvestris, L. — Dev. 
Brylocks (Gaelic hraoilag, Jamieson). Vaccinium Myrtlllus, L. — 
Scott. Jamieson. 
Brymble. Rulms fniticosus, L. — Huloet, 1552. dial. 
Bryon. ‘ Wild nepte.’ Hal. Wr. Bryonia dioica, L. 
Bryony. (1) Bryonia dioica, L. — Grete Herball, Turn. Lib. 
(2) Tamus communis, L. — Hants. Phyt. hi. 890. 
Bryony, Black. Tamus communis, L. — Prior, p. 30. According to 
Lyte some persons used to assign the name to Actoea spicata, L. 
Bryony, Red or White. Bryonia dioica, L. —Lyte. Prior, p. 30. 
Bryswort. Hal. Wr. See Briswort. 
Buck. A-S. Boc. (1) Fagus sylvatica, L. — Scotl. Jamieson. Cock- 
ayne, hi. 314. Prior, p. 30. 
(2) Polygonum Fagopyrum, L. — ‘ In the central parts of the East 
Norfolk district its only name is huck.’’ — E. D. S. Gloss. B. 3. Tusser 
says : — 
‘ In May is good sowing thy buck or thy brank. 
That black is as pepper, and smelleth as rank ; 
It is to thy land as a comfort or muck. 
And all thing it maketh as fat as a buck.’ 
Buckbean. Menyanthes trifoliata, L. — Lyte. Ger. Ches. ; Yks. 
(Wakefield, Bedale) ; E. Yks. ; E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. Supposed 
by some to have been originally bog-hean, but this name is not found 
in the older writers. Prior (p. 30) considers it to be derived from the 
Hutch word Bocks-hoonen (Germ. Bockshohne), as it is considered to be 
a remedy against the scharbock, or scurvy ; and that the Dutch word 
seems to be derived from the Lat. scorbutus, the scurvy. Jamieson 
says : ‘ A name given in Roxb. to the common trefoil. It seems rather 
to be the Menyanthes trifoliata, marsh trefoil, or bog bean. It grows 
somewhat like a bean, and many people in Scotland infuse and drink 
it for its medicinal virtues.’ 
Buckbean, Fringed. Limnanthemum nymphoeoides, Lk. — From its 
fringed corolla ; a book-name invented when the plant was considered 
a species of Menyanthes. Prior, p. 30. 
Buckbeards. Arena elatior, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. 
Buckgrass. Lycopodium clavafum, L. — Cumh. 
