ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Thyme, Bank. Thymus Serpyllum, L. — Berhs. 
Thyme, Basil. A modem book-name for Calcunintha Acinos, Clairv. 
Thyme, Creeping or Running. Thymus Serpyllum^ L. — Lyte. Ger. 
Thyme, Horse. See Horse Thyme. 
Thyme, Laced. Thyme upon which dodder (Cuscuta) grows is so 
called by Turner. 
Thyme, Mother of. See Mother of Thyme. 
Thyme, Shepherd’s. See Shepherd’s Thyme. 
Thyme, Water. This name first occurs in Walton’s Complete 
Angler, chap. vi. ‘ Some think that he (the umber or grayling) feeds 
on luater-thyme, and smells of it at his first taking out of the water.’ 
What plant is here intended we are unable to determine ; perhaps it 
is the water-moss, Fontinalis antipyretica, L. At present the name is 
applied to a plant which had not been introduced to this country in 
Walton’s time, viz. Anacliaris Alsinastrum, Bab. Camh. ; Yks., where 
it is ‘ so called by bargemen on the Toxton Canal.’ Aiiss Flues 
(Eambles in Search of Wild Plants). Prior, p. 246. 
Thyme, Wild. The general name for Thymus SerpijJlum, L. — Turn. 
Cumh. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 8 ; Nliuml. Turn. ; E. Bor'd. Bot. E. Bord. 
Thyme-weed. Anacliaris Alsinastrum, Bab. ‘ Throughout the Fens.’ 
The Pen land. Past and Present, p. 307. 
•Tick. A variety of Faha vulgaris, L., well known to farmers, a 
little longer and broader than the common horse-bean. Herts. ‘ Here 
they call the small common field horse-bean small ticks, and the larger 
sort great ticks.^ Ellis, Modern Husbandman, vol. i, pt. 2, p. 24. 
Tickle my Fancy. Viola tricolor, L. — Hal. Tittle my Fancy. 
Norf. Holl. 
Tickler, or Tickling Tommy. The seeds of Rosa canina, L. — N. Dev. 
‘ Boys put them down one another’s backs, when the tickling sensa- 
tion is very vexatious.’ Friend. 
Tidy-pipe. Equisetum sp. — N. Dev. 
Tiger, or Tiger’s Month. (1) Digitalis purpurea, L. — Suss. 
(2) Antirrhinum majus, L. — Stiff. ; Suss. 
(3) Various species of Linaria. Suss. 
Tile, Tilet-tree, Tillet, or Tillet-tree. Tilia europoea, L. — Hal. 
Prior, p. 232, 235. Hal. has also ‘ Tilleul, a kynde of frute, tilleul. 
Palsgrave, 1530, subst. f. 70.’ 
Tills. Ervum Lens,\i. — ‘ Pulse, lentils. Var. dial.' Hal. ^Wee 
in English [call it] Lentills, but the country people in Hampshire, and 
other countries, where they sow it in their fields for their Cattles 
foode, call it Tills, leaving out the Lent, as thinking that word agreeth 
not with the matter.’ Park. Theatr., p. 1058. Prior, p. 235. 
Til-tree. See Teile. 
Time. An old spelling of Thyme. 
