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Blood Wall, Bloody Wallier, and Bloody Warrior are probably 
corruptions of Bloody Wallflower. A ‘ variety with double blood- 
coloured flowers .... is called the Old Bloody Wallflower.’ Miller’s 
Gard. Diet., Ed. VIII. (1768). 
Bloodwort. (2) add Pharmaco-pinax (1625), 
(7) Polygonum aviculare, L. — Lisle’s Husbandry, p. 388. 
Bloody Butchers, add Oxf. (Standlake) ; W. W ore. 
Bloody Fingers, add (2) Orchis mascida, L. — Glou. (Chedworth). 
Bloody Warrior, add Hants. E. D. S. Gloss. 
Blooming Willow. See Willow, Blooming. 
Blossom Withy. Phlox acutifolia, L. — Dev. Friend. 
Bine Ash. Syringa vulgaris, L. — Glou. (Chedworth). The white 
variety is called White Ash. 
Blue-bell, add (1) Derh, 
(2) Scilla nutans, Sm. add Cornw. ; Derh.; Dark.; Kent; N.-E. 
Lane. ; Nhumh. ; Rutl. ; Surr. 
(3) Vmca major, L. — Dev. Friend. 
Blueberry, add Ireland (Donegal). 
Blue Blawort. add Aberdeen sh. 
Blue Buttons, add (1) In Agric. Surv. the name is assigned to 
‘Centaureas of sorts’ (Staff.), but Scahiosa Succisa, L., is probably 
intended. 
(4) Vinca major, L. — Dev. (Chudleigh), and V. minor, L. — Dev. 
(Wybridge). Friend. 
Blue Cat’s tail. See Cat’s tail, Blue.^ 
Blue Daisy, add (2) Jasione montana, L. — Ches. (Delaniere). 
Blue Gramfer Greygles. Supply ‘ Dors. ’ before H. & Q. 
Blue Grass, add Carex panicea, L. — Renfreivsh. Stat. Acc. Scotl., 
vii. 518. 
Bluejacket. Polemonium cceruleum, L. — Ireland (co, Antrim). 
Blue men. Scahiosa arvensis, L. — N. Bucks. 
Blue Eocket. add A. Napellus, L. — Ireland, Taylor on Poisons, 
p. 816. (2) Scilla nutans, Sm. Irel. (co. Fermanagh). Science Gossip, 
1882, p. 43. 
Blue Violet. (2) add Dev. Friend (also V. odorata, L.). 
Blue Weed. Echiwn vidgare, L. — Herts, 1 W. Ellis, Modern Hus- 
bandman, vol, vi. pt. III. p. 39 (1750). 
Boar-thistle, add (1) Som. ; Herts., Ellis ; and still in use in 
Suff. In an extract from a letter by Cotton Mather in Phil. Trans., 
xxix. 64 (1714), we find mention of ‘A thistle call’d the Boar -thistle ; 
very short and prickly, with a large and long root.’ 
