ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Apple, Cane, add ‘In the rocky parts of the county of Kerry 
about Loughlane, and in the islands of the same Lough, the people 
of the country call it the Cane Apple. ^ Phil. Trans, xix. 510. The 
name occurs in ‘ An Appendix to the Legacie of Husbandry .... 
relating ... to the .... natural history of Ireland ’ (1652). ‘ Cane- 
Apples. Where any grow, what store ? ’ 
Apple, Fir. add Suit. 
Apple-pie. add (1) Dev. Friend. (Apple-pie flower.) N. HantSy 
E. D. S. Gloss. 
Arb-rabbit. (A corruption of Herb Eohert.) Geranium Rohertianum, 
Ti.^Dev. Friend. 
Arbeal. add See Dutch Arbel.^ 
Arbell. A spelling of Abele, Populus alha, L. — ‘The Ahele or 
ArlelD Modern Husbandman, VII. ii. 181 ; also Arhele, p. 182. 
Mr. Elworthy writes it Arhale, and says, ‘ the only name for the 
timber in Som. ; the tree is often Silver Poplar.' 
Archangel. Lamium album, L. — add Dev. Friend. 
Archangel, Eed. add Norf. 
Argol. See Orchal. 
Arn. add Aberdeen. 
Arnut. add Ireland {Antrim ; Down ; Donegal). 
Arpent, or Arpent-weed. Sedum Telepkium, L. — Hants. A cor- 
ruption of Orpine. Ellis (Modern Husbandman, iii. pt. 2, pp. 177 — 
181) speaks of this as a most destructive weed, especially to corn- 
crops, because of its ‘ quick and great increase ’ : his animadversions 
upon its ‘ pestiferous ’ and ‘ horrid ’ nature are amusingly energetic. 
Arsmart. Usually applied to Polygonuin Hydrojyiper, L., but 
Ellis (Mod. Husbandman, III. i. 47) seems to intend the land form of 
P. amphibium, L., under the nme. 
add (2) Pyrethrum Parthenium, Yks. (Eipon). 
Asarabacca. add ‘ Azarabaccara is given as an English name for the 
plant by Lobel’ (Obs. p. 328). 
Ash, French. Cytisus Laburnum, L. — Derb. 
Ash, Ground. (1) add Warw. 
Ash-Keys, add Dev. Friend. Leic. E. D. S. Gloss. 
Ash, Quaking, add N.-E. Scotland. 
Asp. add Wore. (Upton-on-Severn) E. D. S. Gloss. 
Auld Wives’ Tongues. The poems to which Gerard alludes are 
noticed in N. and Q. 6th S. i. 272. 
AuT man’s Bell. Campanula rotundifoUa, L. — N.-E. Scotl. (Buchan), 
where it is ‘ regarded with a sort of dread, and commonly left 
unpulled.’ Gregor’s Folk-lore of North-East of Scotland, p. 148. 
