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commutatus, or B. racemosus, or (wLicli is more likely) to all of them. — 
Science Grossip, 1876, p. 39. In Aberdeensli. it is applied to B. mollis 
when growing in hayfields and overtopping other grasses. 
Bull-hassocks. See Bullpates. 
Bull Haws. The fruit of Ci'atoegus Oxyacantha, L., when it con- 
tains a double stone.— Bord. Bot. E. Bord. ‘ The largest kind of 
haws.’ — Yks. (Whitby), E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 2. 
Bullies. The fruit of Prunus syoinosa, L. — Line. Wr. In E. D. S. 
Gloss. 0. 6 {N. Line.) it is (probably more correctly) assigned to ‘ the 
bullace, or larger sloe’ — i. e. P. insititia, L. 
Bullimong. Polygonum PagogDyrum, L. — Ger. A term also applied 
in Ess. to a mixture of oats, pease, and vetches. Ray, E. D. S. Gloss. 
C. 16, 79. 
Bullins. The fruit of Prunus spinosa^ L. — Eal. Hartshorne. 
Bullions. ‘ Wild plums ; large sloes.’ — Wr. Prunus insititia, L. '? 
' Bullister. ‘ Prunus communis, or rather a large form of it common 
on seashores.’ — Scotl. (Galloway), Scottish Naturalist, April, 1871; 
Cumh. E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 8. 
Bullock’s eye. Sempervivum tectorum, L. — Ger. 
Bullock’s Lungwort. Verhascum Tliapsus, L. — Kent, Ger. ‘ The 
countrey people, especially those husband men in Kent, doe give their 
cattell the leaves to drinke against the cough of the lungs, being an 
excellent approoved medicine for the same, whereupon they do call it 
Bullocks Longwoort.’ — Ger. 630. Prior, p. 32. See also Bullein, Bk. 
of Simples, fol. 31, where it is spoken of as furnishing a ‘ synguler 
medicine,’ which conveyed ‘ into the throte of the sycke beast wyth a 
borne or tonnell made for the same purpose, wyll heale and dense 
theyr lunges.’ 
Bulloe. ‘ The sloe or wild plum : Welsh bwlas, winter sloes.’ — E. 
D. S. Lane. Gloss. Prunus insititia, L. ? See Bullace. 
Bullpates. Aira ccespitosa, L. — West of Eng. According to Wr., 
‘ a heavy crop of grass driven by wind or rain into an eddy is said to 
be hull-pated. Nortliampt.^ In N. Line. ‘ large round tufts of grass 
standing above the common level of the field ’ are called Bull- 
liassocks. ‘ There is a place in the Isle of Axholme called Bidl- 
hassocks.’ — E. D. S. Gloss. C. 6. These tufts are probably Aira coes- 
pitosa, L. See Bull-grass, 
Bull Rattle. (1) Lychnis vespertina, Sibth. — Bucks. 
(2) Silene inflata, Sm. — Bucks.; Wight, El. Vect. The n^me rattle 
probably refers to the sound made by the dry inflated calyx of this 
species. 
Bullrush. (1) A name applied in books to Scirpus lacustris, L., 
but in modern popular use more usually applied to (2). — Lyte. Clies. 
‘ Formerly ^pe\i pole-rush, the pool-rush, jonc d'eau, A.S. ea-rix, from 
its growing in pools of water, and not, like other rushes, in mire.’ — ■ 
Prior, p. 32. We have not met with the spelling polerush in our 
