ENGLISH PLANT NAMES. 
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Fern, Sweet, add Coles, A. in E. 168. 
Fiddles, add Dev. Friend. 
Field Daisy. CJinjsanthemmn Leiieantliemum^ L. — Dev. Friend. 
Fig. (2) add Hants. E. D. S. Gloss. 
Filaera. add (2) Valeriana offi^cinalis, L. ‘ Fillaira, a plant, 
valerian. Also called Villera.’ Ireland (Antrim and Down), E. D. S. 
Gloss. The name is thus a corruption of Valerian, and was probably 
transferred to ( 1 ) from its similar habitat and casual resemblance. 
Fillaira. See above. 
Filbeard. add Wore. (Upton-on-Severn), E. D. S. Gloss. 
Filbert, add In the Sussex Archaeological Collections (vi. 46), 
in a paper on the Visit of King Edward to the Second Battle, &c., in 
1324, there is mentioned among the presents ‘ a basket of filbert nuts, 
{nuces de Sancto Philiherto),' and again (p. 49), ‘William de la Zouche 
sent for the royal table 16 nuts of St. Philibert.’ On this 
it is remarked, ‘ It is probable that these filberts were imported from 
one of the many villages or towns in Normandy and Brittany, bearing 
the name of St. Philibert, where the climate may have been propitious 
to their growth. There was a family of the name in England.’ 
Finger Fern, add (2) Scolopendrium vulcjare, Sm., var. midti- 
Jidum. ‘Finger-ferne in some places.’ Park. Theatr., 1047. 
Fingers and Thumbs, add Dev. Friend; Oxf.; Rutl. Friend. 
N. and Q., 6th S., vi. 237. 
Finnows. Mould. Hants. Lisle, Observations on Husbandry 
(1757), p. 241. 
Fir-bob. add Lane. E. D. S. Gloss. 
Fir-top. Fruit of Finns sylvestris, L. — Lowlands of Seotland. 
Fish Leaves, add Warm. 
Five-Finger Grass. (1) add Glou. (Chedworth). 
Five-fingers, add (5) Primula elatior, Jacq. And p>Tobably also 
‘ oxlips ’ generally. Suff. 
Five-fingered Eoot. add ‘ Grows in great plenty over all this 
Country, is called by the Inhabitants five- finger'd Eoot, and is much 
used by them in Cataplasms for the Fellon, or worst Kind of Whit- 
low.’ Glam. (Haverfordwest). Phil. Trans., xliv. 228 (1746). 
Five-leaf, line 3, for oneorage read oueoroge. 
Fizz-gigs. Seneeio Jaeohcea, L. — E. Bord. Bot. E. Bord. 
Flagons. Iris Pseudaeorus, L. — Irel. (Co. Fermanagh). Co. Derry 
(Flagon). Science Gossip, 1882, p. 43. Cfr. Flaggan. 
Flannel, Our Lord’s, add (2) Verhaseum Thapsus, L. — Kent 
(Faversham). 
Flapper Dock, add (2) ‘The large leaves of the Colt’s foot.’ 
Science Gossqi, 1882, p. 164. Probably Fetasites vulgaris, Desk, is 
meant. 
