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Fair Maids of Kent. The double-flowered variety of Ranunculus 
aconitifolius, L. — Mart. Mill. 
Fairies’ Bath. Peziza coccinea, Jacq. — Hants ; Suss. 
Fairies’ Hair. Cuscuta Epitliymum^ L. — Jersey. 
Fairies’ Horse. Senecio Jacohaea, L. — Ireland, where fairies are sup- 
posed to ride on it. A similar legend is attached to the St. John’s 
Wort in the Isle of Wight, where peasants say that if you tread on 
it after sunset a fairy horse will rise from the earth and carry you 
all night, leaving you in the morning wherever you may chance to be 
at sunrise. See Henderson’s Folk Lore of the Northern Counties, p. 
191. 
Fairies’ Petticoats. Diyitalis purpurea, L. — Ches. 
Fairies’ Table, or Tables. (1) Agaricus campestris, L., and other 
Fungi. — N. Wales. 
(2) Hydrocotyle vidgaris, L. — dies. 
Fairy Bell. Digitalis purpurea, L. — Ireland, Science Gossip, 1870, 
p. 135. 
Fairy Butter. Tremella albida, Huds., and ‘ T, o.rhorea ’ [= Exidia 
glandulosa, Bull.]. — Yks. Cleveland Gloss. ; E. Anglia, Forby (‘ tre- 
mella ’ ). ‘ Even yet believed by many to be the produce of the 
fairies’ dairy.’ — Cleveland Gloss. 
Fairy Cap. Digitalis purpurea, L. — Ireland, Science Gossip, 1870, 
p. 135. 
Fairy Cheeses. Malva rotundifoUa, L. — Yl^s. (York). 
Fairy Cups. Primula veris, L. — Line. (Bottesford). 
Fairy Fingers. Digitalis purpurea, L. — Cumh. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 
8, p. xix. ; Yks. (Whitby), E. D. S. Gloss. C. 2; Ireland, Francis’s Little 
English Flora. 
Fairy Flax. Linum catharticum, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. The 
Fairy Flax of Longfellow (Wreck of the Hesperus) is, however, prob- 
ably L. perenne, L. 
‘ Blue were her eyes as the fairy flaxd 
Prior, p. 74. 
Fairy Glove. Digitalis purpurea, L. — Ireland, Science Gossip, 1870, 
p. 135. 
Fairy Lint. Linum catharticum, L. — E. Lord. Bot. E. Bord. 
Fairy Purses. ‘A kind of fungus .... like a cup, or old- 
fashioned purse, with small objects inside.’ — N. Line. E. D. S. Gloss. 
C. 6. This is probably Nidularia campanulata, Sow. 
Fairy Thimbles. Digitalis gmrpurea, Y. — Camh. ; N. Ess.; Norf 
Fairy-weed. Digitalis rmrpurea, L. — Irel. Science Gossip, 1870, 
p. 135. 
Fallen Stars. Nostoc commune, Vaueb. — Scotl. Jamieson ; Prior, 
p. 74. It was formerly supposed that this alga was the remains of a 
