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A DICTIONARY OF 
Dothering Dicks, Docks, or Ducks. Briza media, L. — Durli. ; 
Nliumb. Dothering Dickies ; North, Hal. ; Cumb. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 
8, where it is also called Dotherin Nancy and Dotherin Grass. 
Dothering means trembling. 
Dothering Toms. Briza media, L. — Eural Cyclopaedia. 
Doubleleaf. Listera ovata, L. — Lyte. Erom its two opposite and 
only leaves. 
Double-tooth. A translation of Bidens, used in With. ed. iv. 
Doudlar. Root of Menyantlies trifoUata, L. — Roxh. Jamieson. 
Doudle. ‘ The root of the common Reed-grass \Pliragmites com- 
munis, Trin.], found, partially decayed, in morasses, of which the 
children in the south of S. make a sort of musical instrument similar 
to the oaten pipe of the ancients. Boxb.’ — Jamieson. 
Dough-fig. ‘ A Turkey fig. Somd — Hal. Wr. Pulman. 
Dove-dock. Tussilago Farfara, L. — Caithness, Jamieson. 
Dove’s Foot. (1) Geranium moUe, L. — Crete Herball, Turner, Lyte, 
Ger., Prior, p. 68. 
(2) Aguilegia vulgaris, L. — Hal. Wr. 
Dowballs. Brassica ragm, L. (field turnips). — Line. Brogden. 
Down. ‘ Carduus tomentosus.’ — Skinner. 
Down Dilly. Naixissus Pseudo-narcissus, L. — S. Bucks. An 
abbreviation of Daffadowndilly. 
Down Thistle. Onopordum Acanthium; L. — Park. Theatr. (Index). 
The leaves are ‘ covered over with a long hairy wooll or cottonj’- 
downe.’ — Id. p. 979. 
Downweed. Filago germanica, L. — Turn. Herb. 
Downy Ling. Eriopliorum polystachyon, L. — Ayrsli. 
Dracke. See Drake. 
Dragans. ‘ The herb serpentine.’ — Hal. Wr. Probably Arum 
Dracunculus, L. 
Dragge. Lolium temulentum, L. — Norf., Stiff. See Drank. 
Dragon, Great, or Small. Arum maculatum, L. — Suss. 
Dragon-bushes. Linar ia vulgaris, L. — S. Bucks. 
Dragons. ‘ A name applied by English herbalists (1) to Polygonum 
Bistorta; (2) to Ophioglossum vulgatum ; (3) to Arum, maculatum .'' — 
Cockayne, ii. 379. We have no other authority for this statement. 
See also Prompt. Parv. p. 130. 
Dragon’s Blood. Geranium Robertianum, L. — Sal. (Pulverbatch). 
Dragons, Female. ‘ Water-dragons. Ger.’ — Hal. Wr. Calla 
^ palustris, L. 
