ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Touch-leaf. Hypericum Androsoemum, L. — ‘ The still-prevailing 
Welsh custom, taught by mothers to their children, of placing its 
leaves — under the name of touch-leaf or touching -leaf — between the 
leaves of their hibles.’ Wilkinson, p. 101. Hants. (Touchan-leaves). 
Touch-me-not. (1) A general name lor Impatiens Nolimie-tangere, L. — 
Glou. ‘ A plant called Noli-me-tangere, neer which if you put your 
hand, the seed will spurtle forth suddenly, in so much that the unex- 
pectednesse of it made the valiant Lord Fairfax to start, as Mister 
Eohert [Bobart] at the Physick Garden in Oxford can tell you.’ 
Coles, A. of S. 39. Prior, p. 237. 
(2) Cardamine Jiirsuta, L. — dies. (Mobberley). This plant also 
shoots out its seeds when touched. 
Touch- wood. Boletus ignarius, L. — Ger. This is ‘ German tinder,’ 
which used to he used for fusees. Is it not more likely that the name 
is derived because it ignites with a touch, as it were, Hke ‘ touch 
string,’ and ‘touch paper,’ than for the reason Prior gives? Touch 
string, &c. was known before German tinder became an article of 
commerce. Prior, p. 237. 
Tower Cress. Arahis Turrita, L. — Prior, p. 237. 
Tower {or Towers) Mustard (in reference to its habit of growth). 
Turritis glahra, L. — Ger., who also calls it Towers Treacle. With, 
(ed. i.) calls it Towerer. The name has been transferred in modern 
books (Treas. Bot. &c.) to Arahis Turrita, L. 
Tower-wort. A book-name for Turritis glahra, L. — Treas. Bot. 
Town Cress. Lepidium sativum, L. — Lyte, who has also Town 
Kars. Prior, p. 237. 
Town-weed. Mercurialis perennis, L. — ‘From the growth of the 
plant in towns and town gardens, it is sometimes called Town-weedJ 
Pratt. It would seem more probable that M. annua, L. is intended. 
Toy wort. Capsella Bursa-jmstoris, L. — ‘In the Xorth part of 
England Toywoort.' Ger. 215. Prior, p. 237. 
Trail, The. Male catkins of the oak. Quercus Rohur, L. — Hants. 
(New Forest). 
Traleen Grass. See Traneen. 
Traneen, or Traneen-grass. Cynosurus cristatus, L., an Irish name 
for the plant, written Trathnhi (cfr. J. White’s Essay on Grasses of 
Ireland (1808), 154), which is ofW met with in Irish general litera- 
ture ; not worth a traneen being equivalent to the English ‘ not worth 
a rush.’ Traleen-grass, given at p. 230, is probably a mistaken 
rendering of the same name. 
Traveller’s Ease. Potentilla Anserina, L. — Warw. So called be- 
cause applied to galled feet. 
Traveller’s Joy. (1) Clematis Vitalha, L. — Seems to have been 
invented by Gerard, who speaks of its ‘ decking and adorning waies 
and hedges, where people trauell, and thereupon I haue named it the 
Traueilers loie.’ Ger. 739. Cormu. ; Dev.; Oxf. ; Wilts. Prior, p. 237. 
(2) Lycopodium clavatum, L. — Yks. (Cleveland) Cleveland Gloss. 
