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A DICTIONARY OF 
Fleedod. See Flydod. 
Fleenurt. field flower of a yellow colour.’ — Lane. Hal. Wr. 
Senecio Jacohcea, L. See Flydod. 
Flege. ‘ Sedge grass.’ — Hominale MS. Hal. Wr. This is probably 
only a spelling of Flag. 
Flesh and Blood. Potentilla Tormerdilla, L. — Lammermuirs, Bot. 
E. Bord. The name is ‘ obviously derived from the disease it is 
administered to cure, viz. dysentery.’ — Id. 
Fletches. ^ Green pods of peas.’ — East, Hal. 
Flewort. ^ Ipjpia minor. Sloane MS. 5, f, 5.’ — Hal. Stellaria 
media, L. 
Fliggers. ‘The common flag.’ — East, Forby, Hal. Wr. Probably 
Iris Pseudacorus, B. ‘ From the motion of its leaves by the slightest 
impulse of the air.’ — Forby. 
Flix. Liniim iisitatissimum, L. — Dors. 
Flixweed, or Flixwort. Sisymbrium Sophia, L. — ‘The seede of 
Flixeweede or Sophia, dronken with wine or water of the smithes 
forge, stoppeth the bloudy flixe.’ — Lyte. Prior, p. 83. 
Float Grass. See Flote-grass. 
Flobby Dock. Digitalis purpurea, L. — Dev. See Flap Dock. 
Flocks, Sniddle. Eriophorum angustifoUum, L. — Clies. So called 
from its resemblance to flocks of wool. Sniddle is a generic name 
applied to Carices generally, and to allied plants. 
Flop-a-dock. Digitalis purpurea, L. — Dev. See Flap Dock. 
Flop Docken. Digitalis purpurea, L . — Cleveland Gloss. See 
Flap Dock. 
Flop Poppy. Digitalis purpurea, L. — Dev. Phyt. iii. 619. See 
Flap Dock. 
Floramor, or Florimer. A name formerly applied, like Flower- 
gentle, to various cultivated species of Amaranthus, as A. liypochon- 
driacus, L., A. caiidatus, L., and A. tricolor, L. — Lyte, Turn. Lib., &c. 
Park. (Parad.) says: ‘The name Flower-gentle in English, and 
• Floramour, which is the French .... [are] equally given to all of 
these plants.’ Prior, p. 80. 
Floss. (1) ‘The leaves of reed canary-grass’ [Phalaris arundinacea, 
L.]. — Orkneys, Jamieson. 
(2) ‘The common rush’ \Juncus communis, Mey. (?)]. — Orkneys, 
Jamieson. 
Floss-docken. See Flowster-docken. 
Floss-seave. Eriophorum, L. — Yks. Cleveland Gloss. ; (Whitby) E. 
D. S. Gloss. C. 2. 
Flote-grass. Glyceria fluitans, Br, — Ger., who also calls Alope- 
curus geniculatus, L., by the same name. Prior (p. 80) also includes 
under it Foa aquatica, Jj. Ger. says they are called ‘ Flote-grasse and 
