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Fell-bloom. Lotus corniadatus, L. — Scotl, Jamieson. 
Fellin Grass. See Fellon Grass (1). 
Fellon-berry. Bryonia diowa, L. — Buddie MS. 
Fellon Grass. (1) Imperatoria Ostridliium. — Cumh.^. D. S. Gloss. 
C. 8; Westm. Wilson’s Synopsis (1744). This is doubtless ‘the grass 
or herb boiled with other things to cure the fellon ’ [in cattle] , referred 
to as Fellon-gress in E. D. S. Gloss. C. 2 (17fs. Whitby) ; and is very 
probably the Fellin-grass which Jamieson gives as the Roxhuryhsh. 
name for ‘ the plant called Angelica,’ also used in disease of cattle. 
‘ In Upi^er Teesdale [this plant] is still used on some of the remote 
dale farms as an aromatic stimulant for sick cattle, and as a galacta- 
gogue.’ — Eeport of Botanical Locality Eecord Club for 1875. 
(2) Hellehorns idger, L. — Cumh, (Winderwath). The leaves of this 
plant are much used for making setons or setters in cattle. 
The term fellon or felon has different meanings in different cases. 
In old writers it is usually applied to a whitlow or similar swelling in 
the human subject (see Fellonwort (1) and Fellonweed), and Nares 
{q, V.) understands it only in this sense. See also a note in Prompt 
Parv. p. 154. From a passage in Langham’s Garden of Health, under 
Columbine, in which it is stated that that plant ‘ is good for young 
children to drinke against the red gum or fellon,’ it would seem that 
the word had another signification, especially as in the case of the 
ordinary fellon or whitlow an external application was usually pre- 
scribed ; and this meaning it still retains in some districts (see E. D. 
S. ( YTis. Whitby) Gloss. C. 2, where it is defined as ‘ a kind of eruptive 
disorder in children’). But a disease in cattle is also called the fellon 
{Line. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 6), and this is defined in E. D. S. Gloss. C. 2 
{Yks. Whitby) as ‘the tightness and soreness of a cow’s skin from 
cold,’ cripple fellon being ‘ the lameness in the legs of cattle from 
fellon.’ Jamieson refers to a plant which was ‘ viewed as a specific in 
the disease of cattle called the fellin,’ but does not explain Avhat that 
disease was, unless we suppose it to be the same as fell-ill, in which 
‘ the fell or skin, instead of being soft and loose, becomes hard, and 
sticks closely to the flesh and bones ; ’ he also mentions fell-rot as ‘ a 
species of rot in sheep, apparently denominated from affecting the 
skin or fell.’ Mr. T. Q. Couch tells us that in E. Corniv. fellon is ‘ the 
vulgar name for inflammation occurring in cattle.’ See Cleveland 
Gloss, for further notes on the subject. 
Fellon-herb. (1) Artemisia mdejaris, L. — Cormo. Borlase. 
(2) Ilieracium Pilosella, L. — E. Cormo. 
Fellon -weed. Benecio Jacoheea^Jj . — Bullein, who says ‘this will 
heale furunculi called Eellons.’ — Id. 
Fellon-wood. (1) Solanum Dulcamara^ L. — Hal. Wr. ; Cumh. E. 
D. S. Gloss. C. 8; Yks. Prior, p. 76. 
(2) Imperatoria Ostrutliium, L. — Cumh. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 8, p. xxi. 
Fellon-wort. (1) Solanum Dulcamara, L. — Coles, A. in E. ; Prior, 
p. 76. ‘The leaves or beriies stamped with rusty bacon, applyed to 
that joynt of the finger that is troubled with a felon, hath been" found 
to bo very successful for the curing of the same.’ — Id. ‘Country 
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