ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Orchanet (from the French ovcaneite, alkanet). Various species of 
Anchusa, especially A. tinctoria, L. In Turn. Names probably Lycopsis 
arvensis, L., is intended : ‘ it may be named in english wilde buglos 
or orchanet^ as the french men do.’ Turn. Names. Prior, p. 169. 
Orchard-grass. A frequent hook-name for Dactylis glomerata, L. — 
With. ed. vii. Martyn (Flora Eustica). It is also so called in N. 
America, where it has been introduced to cultivation from Europe. 
Prior, p. 170. 
Orchard Weed. From its very frequent growth under fruit trees. 
Antliriscus sylvestris, Holfm. — Grose. 
Orcheston Grass. An elongated form of many British grasses, 
including Agrostis stolonifera, L., Poa trivialis, L., and others: so 
called from their place of growth. See Transactions of the Linnean 
Society, vol. v. pp. 28 — 31, and With. (ed. vii.), ii. 169, for a full 
account of it. The following note upon it in Aubrey’s MS. of the 
Nat. Hist, of Wilts (Eoyal Soc.), p. 123, may be worth transcribing: 
‘ At the east end of Ebbesbourne-wake is a meadowe called Ebbes- 
borne-meade, that beareth grasse eighteen foot long. I myself have 
seen it of thirteen feet long : it is watered with the washing of the 
village. . . . Upon a wager in King James the first’s time, with 
washing it more than usuall, the grasse was eighteen foot long. It 
is so sweet that the pigges will eate it, it growes no higher than other 
grasse, but with knotts and harles like a skeen of silke . . . they 
cannot mo we it with a sythe, but they cutt it with such a hooke as 
they doe bagge pease with. [From] Mr. Beed y® Eector there. At 
Orston St. Maries is a meadow of the nature of that at Ebbesbourne 
aforesayd which beares a sort of very long grasse. Of this grasse, 
there was presented to king James the first some that were seventeen 
foot long; here is only one acre and one halfe of it. In common 
years it is 12 or 13 foot long; it is a sort of knott-grasse, and the 
pigs will eat it.’ 
Orchis. The general book-name for many Orchidacece. The Bee 
Orchis is Ophrys apifera^ L. ; Bog Orchis, Malaxis pahidosa, Sw. ; 
Butterfly Orchis, Hahenaria chlorantha^ Bab., and H. hifolia, Br. ; 
Cuckoo Orchis, Orchis mascula^ L. (Ger.) ; Drone Orchis, Ophrys 
fiicifera, Sm. ; Frog Orchis, Hahenaria viridis, Br. ; Hand Orchis, 
Orchis maculata, L. (from the shape of the tubers, Treas. Bot.) ; 
Lady Orchis, Orchis purpurea^ Jacq. ; Lizard Orchis, 0. hircinay 
L. ; Marsh Orchis, 0. latifolia, L. ; Military Orchis, 0. militarisy 
L. ; Monkey Orchis, 0. tephrosanthosy Vill. ; Musk Orchis, Her- 
niinium Monorchis, L. ; Purple Orchis, Orchis mascida, L. ; Spider 
Orchis, Ojdirys aranifera, IIuds.,and 0. arachnites, Willd. ; Spotted 
Orchis, Orchis macidata, L. See also Bird’s-nest (3), Fly Orchis, 
and Man Orchis. Lyte calls Orchis maculata, L., and several other 
species. Orchis Standelwort. Prior, p. 169. 
Ore, or Oreweed. A name applied to more than one species of sea- 
weed. South, Hal.: who adds, ‘Holinshed, Chron. Ireland, p. 183, 
mentions Orewads.’ Eay {South) has ‘ Oore, seawrack ’ (E. D. S. 
Gloss. B. 16). It is Fucus vesiculosus, L., that is so called in Oormo. 
(Polperro), N. & Q. 1st Ser. x. 359; and this is probably the Ore- 
wood of Skinner, who says ‘ qusedam algse species quae Cornubiao 
agros mirifice foecundat sic dicta fort, quod, ut aurum, accolas locu- 
pletat, auro emi meretur, est autem vox Cornubiae fere propria.’ We 
