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A DICTIONARY OF 
Buckhorn. See Buck’shorn (1 and 2). 
Buck-horn Moss. Lycopodium clavatum^ L. — Cumh. E. D. S. 
Gloss. C. 8. 
Buckie-berries. Fruit of Rosa canina, L., and other species.— 
Antrim and Down. 
Buckies. Fruit of Rosa canina, L. — Aherdeensli. 
Buckler Fern. A modern book-name for the genus Lastrea. 
Buckles, Horse. Primula veris, L. — Kent (Folkestone). Probably 
a corruption of Paigles, the East Anglian name for cowslips, which see. 
Buck Mast. Skinner. ‘ The nuts or mast of the beech, which was 
formerly called bucke.’ — Prior, p. 30 ; not, as Coles (A. in E.) says, 
‘ because deere delight to feed thereon.’ 
Buckrams. (1) Allium ursinum, L. — Lyte, Turn. iNames, Ger. 
(2) Arum macidatum, L. — Ger. Appx. 
Buck’s-beard. (1) Alascal (Government of Cattell, 1662, p. 220) 
describes under this name a plant which ‘ groweth in forests and 
shades, and hath flowers and seeds like a buck' s-beard, his leaves 
like great parsley.’ This we have not been able to identify. 
(2) Tragopogon pratensis, L. — Baxter. See Goat’s-beard. Prior, 
p. 30. 
Buck’s-horn. (1) Senebiera Coronopus, Poir. — ‘ Bukes ho7iies or eh 
swynes grese (grass), and has leues slaterde as an hertys home, and 
hit groyes gropyng be the erthe. And hit has a litell whit flonre, and 
groyes in the ways.’ — MS. Bodl. 356; Cockayne, iii. 316. Culpeper 
has Buckhorn. 
(2) Lycopodium clavatum, L. — Cumb. (also Buckhorn) ; Stirling. 
(3) Plantago Coronopus, L., and P. maritima, L. — Lyte. 
Buckshorn Moss. Lycopodium clavatum, L. — Cumb. 
Buckshorn Plantain. Plantago Coronopus^ L., from the deeply-cut 
leaves, and P. maritima, L. — Lyte. 
Bucks-mast. The fruit of Fagus sylvatica, L. — Skinner. See 
Buck-mast. 
Buck Thistle. A name applied in E. Yks. to the larger thistles, C. 
nutans, L., C. eriophorus, L., and G. lanceolatus, L. In N. Line, ‘the 
large meadow-thistle’ (E. D. S. Gloss. C. 6), no doubt one or more of 
the foregoing. 
Buckthorn. (1) The general name for Rhamnus catharticus, L. — 
Lyte, Ger., Prior, p. 31. 
(2) Primus spinosa, L. — N. Line. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 6. 
Buckthorn, Alder. See Alder. ^ 
Buckthorn, Sea. The common book-name for Hippophae rliam- 
noides, L., suggested, like the Latin specific name, by its general 
resemblance to a buckthorn. 
