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A DICTIOXAllY OF 
Bell, Hare, add (2) Ireland (co. Derry). 
Bells, Harvest. See Harvest Bells. 
Bells, Hedge. (1) add South. Hal. 
Bellflower. (2) add. Dors. (Broadwindsor). 
Bell-ling. Erica cinerea, L. — Yhs. (Cleveland). 
Bell Thistle, add Yhs. (Cleveland). 
Belladonya. Solanum Dulcamara, L. See Friend, Devonshire 
Plant Xames. 
[Bells, Yeverixg, should he erased; it is not a plant-name.] 
Bend. Calhina vidgaris, Salisb. — Ches. (Delamere). Cf. Bent. 
Bexxert. a.dd ‘ The out-fields are thick-set with what they call 
Bennert (small comfrey).’ From a letter from a Scotch farmer printed 
in W. Ellis’ Modern Husbandman, iii. pt. ii. 161 (1750). This is 
no doubt Beilis, which was the Consol ida minor of old wiiters. See 
Consound. 
Bexxet, Herb, add Ltte. 
Bennet-weed. Alopecnrus agrestis, L. — Herts. ‘ The black Bennet 
is worse than the white Bennet.’ Ellis, Modern Husbandman, iv., 
pt. i. p. 64. 
Bext. add Hants. E. D. S. Gloss. As to the use of the word in 
Aberdeenshire, Mr. J. P. Soutter writes : Luzula campestris, 
but also used generically for any harsh rough dry pasture which cattle 
reject, as Juncus sqiiarrosus, Xardus, &c. ; also to dry pastures by the 
sea, especially to the harsh diy clumps of Psnmma arenaria.’ In Beds., 
Batchelor says the name is applied to LoJium perenne. The reference 
of the quotation from Gerard to Phalaris ariindinacea is an error. See 
Windlestraw. (3) Mactaggart has \Bentij grass, coarse grass which 
grows in marshes.’ 
Bent, Fine. ^ Agrostis filiformis.' Cheviots. Ami. Agric., xxvii. 179. 
Bent, Fly. See Fly Bent.* 
Bergamot. (2) add Dev. FI. Plymouth. 
Besom Heath. See Heath, Besom.* 
Besom Moss. Polytrichum commune, L. — Cumh. Hutchinson 
(1794). 
Beswin, Beswind. ‘ Convolvulus major.'' Hants. E. D. S. Gloss. 
Perhaps C. sepium, L., is intended. 
Bethlem Star, add (2) Hypericum calycinum, L., ‘goes very 
improperly under the name of the Bethlehem Star.'* Pm’ton, Midland 
Flora, 352. 
Betoxt, AVater. add, Kent (Maidstone). Science Gossip, 1881, 
p. 211. 
Betony, Wild. Dryas octopetala, L. — Ireland (Burren Mountains, 
Co. Clare). Wade, Plant, rar. Hibern. (1804), 41. 
