ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Bumble, or Bumbles. Scirpus lacustris, L. — Ger. Emac. ‘ Eushes/ 
Line. Hal. Wr., E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 7. In Yks. (Whitby) a horse’s 
collar of straw or rushes is called a humble barfan, as distinguished 
from the leather barfan. 
Bumbleberries. Eruit of Ruhus fruticosus^ L. — Turn. Lib. 
Bumblekites. The fruit of Ruhus fruticosus, L. — Hal, Wr. ; 
Cumh. ; Hants. Grose; Nhumh ; Yks. (Tadcaster) ; Eay (Gloss. B. 15, 
35). Prior (p. 32) says the derivation of this name is ‘ from Scot. 
kyte, belly ; ’ ‘ from the rumbling and bumbling caused in the bellies 
of children who eat its fruit too greedily.’ Bumble, however, appears 
to be merely a corruption of Brumble, i. e. Bramble; though it is quite 
likely that kyte may have been added from a confusion between the 
words ‘ berry’ and ‘ belly.’ 
Bumly-kites. Fruit of Ruhus fniticosusj L. — Cumh. E. D. S. Gloss. 
C. 8. 
Bummelkites, or Bummlekites; more rarely Bummekites. (1) 
Rubus fruticosus, L. — Berw. Bot. E. Bord. ; Cumb. E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 
8; Yks. (gen.); North, Brockett, who gives a ^bummel-kite with a 
spider in’t’ as an equivalent of ‘a bad bargain, a disappointment.’ 
Bummle-kite in Yks. (Holderness) also signifies ‘ a person with a pro- 
tuberant stomach.’ — E. D. S. Gloss. C. 7. 
(2) Rubus saxatilis, L. — Yks. Hallamsh. Gloss. 
Bummell. Ruhus fruticosus, L. The fruit Bummel-berries. — • 
Cumb. Wr. 
Bummely-kites, or Bummelty-kites. Fruit of Ruhus fruticosus, L. — 
Cumb. E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 8 ; Westm. The bushes are Bummelty- 
kite-busses. 
Bummull. Ruhus fruticosus, L. — Hants. Grose. 
Bunchberry. The fruit of Ruhus saxatilis, L. — Craven, Hal. Wr. ; 
Cumb. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 8 ; North, Brockett. 
Buncholery Buttons. Pyretlirum Parthenium, L. — Stirl. A cor- 
ruption of Bachelors Buttons. 
Bunds. (1) Centaurea nigra, L. — E. Anglia, Forby, Holl. 
(2) Scabiosa succisa, L. — E. Anglia, Eorby. Hal. and Wr. assign 
the name to ‘ a species of Scabious,’ which may be this or 8. arvensis, 
L. 
Bundweed. (1) Centaurea nigra, L. — E. Anglia, Eorby, Holl. 
(2) Scabiosa succisa, L.— jB^. Anglia, Eorby, Holl. Eorby suggests 
that ‘ it is quasi bum-weed, from the roundness and plumpness of the 
parts of fructification in the plants mentioned’! See also Bunwede (2). 
Bunk. (1) Any large hollow-stemmed Umhelliferoe — Norf. 
(2) Conium maculatum, L. — Norf. 
(3) Eoots of Convolvulus sepium, L. — Norf. 
(4) Cichorium Intybus, L. (Bunks). — E. Anglia, Forby, Hal. 
Bunnel, or Bunnle. (1) Heracleum Spliondylium, L. — Cumh. (dry 
stalks), E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 8 ; Lanarks. Jamieson. 
