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A DICTIONARY OF 
Laver, Green. Ulva latissima, L., and U. Lactuca, L. — ‘Both are, 
I believe, indiscriminately eaten under the name of Green Laver or 
03’ster-green,’ English Flora, v. 311, where the name is applied also 
to the whole genus. 
Laverocks. Oxalis Acetosella, L. — Yks. (Whitby), E. D. S. Gloss. 
C. 2 : also Three-leaved Lavarocks. E. Yks. E. D. S. Gloss. 
B. 22. 
Laverock’s Lint. Linum catJiarticum, L. — Lanarksli. Jamieson. 
Lawyers. Old thorny stems of briers and brambles. Similar stems 
are so-called in New Zealand and other colonies. 
(1) Rosa canina, L. — dies, ; ‘the wild briar, or bramble with long 
thorns,’ 8 urr. E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 3 ; Wario. 
(2) Ruhus fruticosus, L. — ‘ A long bramble full of thorns, so called 
because “ when once they gets a holt an ye, ye doant easy get shut of 
’em.’” Suss. Parish; Wore. E. Bot. (3rd ed.), iii. 163. 
Laylock, or Laylocks. A common mispronunciation of Lilac. 
Syringa vulgaris^ L. — Olou. (Fairford) ; Pulman ; 80 m. ; Burr. E. D. 
S. Gloss. C. 3 ; Buss. Parish ; Warw. E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 3 ; Yks. (Hol- 
derness), E. D. S. Gloss. C. 7. 
Leaf of S. Patrick. Saxifraga umbrosa, L. — Galway (Inish-bofin), 
Proc. Eoyal Irish Acad., 3rd Ser. ii. 569. 
Leapers. ‘ Grey peas. West.^ Hal. Wr. 
Leap-np-and-kiss-me. Viola tricolor, L. — Buss.; Hants. Hal. 
Leechwort. An A.S. name for Plantago Lanceolata, L.— ‘ Lakeblad, 
Plantago major, in West Gothland (Nemnich). The plantain was 
famed for healing power.’ Cockayne, ii. 397. 
Leed (Beport of Cambridge Antiquarian Soc., vol. iv. no. 2) or 
White Leed. Qlyceria aquatica, Sm. — Camh. ‘ Writing in his 
Britannia of the whole tract of the Pens, [Camden] says “all this 
country in the winter time, and sometimes for the greater part of the 
year, is laid under water by the rivers Ouse, Grant, Nene, Welland, 
Glen, and Witham, for want of sufficient channels and passages ; but 
when these keep to their proper channels, it abounds with grass and 
a sort of rank hay, by them called Lid. . . . This grass is most likely 
OJyceria aquatica, [which] is still usually known by the name of 
White Leed, [and] was once the principal grass of the Wash land.’ 
The Eenland, Past and Present, p. 298. The Eev. E. Gillett assigns 
the name to Poa-aquatica, L. (Cockayne, iii. xxxii). 
Leek. Allium Porrum, L. — Prior, p. 133. 
Leek, Crow. Scilla nutans, Sm.^ — Ger. Appx. Hal. Wr. Prior, p. 58. 
Leek, French. Allium Porrum, L. — Lyte. 
Leek, Sour. Rumex Acetosa, L. — Roxhurglisli. (Kelso), Science 
Gossip, 1876, p. 79; Lreland (Belfast), Flora Belfastiensis : R. Aceto- 
sella, L., is here called Red or Wee Sour Leek. 
Leek, Wild. Allium ursinum, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. 
Leek-cress. An A.S. name for Alliaria gficina.lis, Andrzj., 
a cress 
