ENGUSH PLANT NAMES. 
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Tussocks. Agrostis vulgaris, L., and A. alha, L. — Glou. 
Tutsan. Hypericum Androscemum, L. — Lyte. ‘The leaves laide 
upon broken shins and scabbed legs, healeth them, and many other 
hurtes and griefes, whereof it tooke his name Tout saine or Tutsane, 
of healing all things.’ Ger. 435. S. Bucks. (Tutsan-leaf) ; Dev. 
(Teignmouth) ; also Titson. See also Tipsen-leaves. Hal. has 
‘ Tutson, the periwinkle. East,’ no doubt meaning the same plant. 
Prior, p. 240. 
Tuttles. Flowers of Prunus Cerasus, L. — Dors. 
Tuzzy muzzy. Muscari comosum, Mill. Norf. Park. Parad. 281. 
Twadgers. (1) Vida sepiam, L., perhaps confined to the seeds. 
Yks. (Northallerton). 
(2) Vicia saliva, L. — Yks. 
Tway-blade. The general name for Listera ovata, L. — Lyte. Hal. 
‘ Twa-blade, a plant with two leaves ; ’ Yks. Hallamsh. Gloss. ; 
E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. Holme (Acad, of Armory, ii. 58) has Twy- 
foil. . ^ Prior, p. 240. 
Twelve o’clock. Ornithogalum umhellatum, L. — Eom. Cfr. Eleven 
o’clock Lady. 
Twice- wri then. A name invented by Turner for Polygonum Bistorta, 
L. , a mere translation of the specific name. Prior, p. 240. 
Twick-bine. Pyrus Aucuparia, Gaertn. N. Dev. 
Twig Rush. Cladium Mariscus, L. — Treas. Bot. Prior, p. 24. 
Twig Withy. Salix viminalis, L. — Lyte. Osiers are still called 
twigs in Ches., and an osier-bed a twiggery. 
Twike. Triticum repens, L. — Line. Brogden. 
Twine-grass. ‘Wild Thetch.’ Ellis, Modern Husbandman, vi. 
pt. 2, p. 48. Vicia Cracca, L., or V. hirsuta, Koch. 
Twiny Leg. Bartsia viscosa, L. — N. Dev. (Barnstaple). 
Twist-wood. Viburnum Lantana, L. — Hants. Used by plough- 
boys to twist into handles for their whips, which are called ‘ twists.’ 
(See Whip-crop (2).) 
Twitch. Triticum repens, L., and often Agrostis vulgaris, L. — Beds. ; 
Camb. ; Ches.; Cumb. ; Derb. ; Zao. E. D. Gloss. ; N. Ess. ; N.-W. 
Line. E. D. S. Gloss. 0. 6 ; Norf. Holl. (Twitch Grass) ; Nhamp. . 
Nth. Gloss., Sternb. Som. ; Wore. Prior, p. 240. 
Twitch, Black. (1) Festuca duriuscula, L. — Cumb. Hutchinson’s 
Hist. Cumb. Midland Counties, E. D. S. Gloss. B. 5. 
(2) F. ovina, L. — Beds. Batchelor’s Gen. View of Agric. of Beds. 
(1808), p. 323. 
Twitch, Butter, or Button. Avena elatior, L.—Cumb. E. D. S. 
Gloss. C. 8. 
Twitch, Running. Agrostis alba, L. — Midland Counties, E. D. S. 
Gloss. B. 5. 
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