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A DICTIONARY OF 
Tommy Toad. A toadstool. Lane. (Oldham). 
Tommy Tottles. Lotus corniculatus, L. — N. Yks. The name is 
sent us as ‘ Tommy Tottles broke his mother’s brandy bottles ; ’ but 
we hardly suppose that the whole phrase is in general use. 
Tommy Twa-sorts. Valeriana Phu, L., variety wdth yellow leaves. 
Yks. (Thorpe Perrow); Westm. Gard. Chron. xvii. 601 (1882). 
Tongue-bleeder. Galium Aparine, L. — Leic. (Belgrade) ; Sitff. 
(Tongue-bleed) ; E. Lord. (Tongue-bluiders) Bot. E. Bord. See 
Bluid-tongue. 
Tongue Grass. See Grass, Tongue. 
Tonup. A turnip. Hal. N.-W. Line. E. D. S. Gloss. C. 6. 
Tooth Cress, or Tooth Violet. Book-names for Dentaria hulhifera, 
L. — Prior, p. 236. 
Tooth-wort. (1) Latlircea Squamaria, L. — Ger., who says it ‘riseth 
foorth of the grounde . . . having a tender, thicke, tuberous, or mis- 
shapen bodie, consisting as it were of scales’ like teeth, whereof it 
tooke his name’ (p. 1388). Usually considered to refer to the tooth- 
like scales of the root ; but Mr. E. Lees says, ‘ After flowering, when 
the capsules are half-ripe, in form as well as in colour they simulate 
human teeth in a most remarkable manner.’ Pictures of Nature, 
p. 45. Prior, p. 236. 
(2) Dentaria hidhifera, L. — Treas. Bot. 
(3) Capsella Bursa-pastoris, L. — Ger. Appx. Hal. 
Torches. Verhascum Tliapsus, L. — Lyte, who says, ^ Tlie whole 
toppe, with his pleasant yellow floures, sheweth like to a AYaxe- 
candle, a Taper, cunningly wrought’ (p. 83, ed, 1619). Coles (A. in E.) 
says, ‘ The elder age used the stalks dipped in suet to burn, whether 
at funerals or for private uses.’ Cockayne (iii. 331 ) says it is still so 
called. Wr. has Torch-herb. Prior, p. 236. 
Torfitch. Wild vetch. West. Hal. 
Tormentil. (1) Potentilla TormentUla, Sihth. (and P. replans, L.). 
Turn. Names (where it is also spelt Tormerik). Lyte. Hal. ‘The 
herbsetfoil’; Clies.; 8.-W. Cumh.; Suff. In Antrim and Down Tor- 
menting-root, E. D. S. Gloss. Hal. has the spelling Turmentille. 
(2) Lamium purpureum, L. — Sal. (Craven Arms). Prior, p. 236. 
Torrets. See Turrits. 
Tory-tops. Fruit of Pinus sujlmstris, L. — Ireland (Co. Cork). 
Totsane. ‘ The herb agnus castris'. (sic) Hal. No doubt a mere 
spelling of Tutsan, which see. 
Tottard. ‘The herb nascorium.’ Hal. We do not know this. 
Totter Grass, or Tottering Grass. See Grass, Totter. 
Touch and heal. (1) Hijperieum Androscenium, L. — Bucks. 
(2) Hypericum perforatum, L., and (3) Prunella vulgaris, L. — Ireland 
(Antrim and Down) E. D. S. Gloss. (Touch an’ hail). 
