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A DICTIONARY OF 
Flax, Dutch. Camelina sativa, L. — Nhamj). 9 
Flax, Mountain. (1) add Derb. | 
(3) add Spergula arvensis, L. — Dors.; Sal. CWellington). Shropsh. | 
Word-book ; Yks. (Cleveland). ( 
(4) Briza media, L. — Kirkcudhriglitsh., where it is used medicinally. i 
Scottish Nat., April 1871. ^ 
Flirtwort. Pyrethruin Partlienium, L. — Dev. Friend. i 
Floss. add (2) Jancus effusus, L. — Shetland. Edmonston’s * 
Flora, p. 13. ji 
Flowan. ‘ The bog-cotton. Anthemis Cotida.’’ Ireland (Antrim | 
and Down). The Latin name is misapplied : Erioplioriim is intended. f 
Flower of Bristow, add ‘ Single Nonsuch, Flower of Constanti- 
nople, or as it is most commonly called, Flower of Bristol.' Bea 
{Flora, 1676, p. 148). This would seem to have been a very general 
name for the plant; it is so used in W. Hughes’s Flower Garden 
(1683, ed. iii.). 
Flyam. ‘Those large tangle sea-weeds which grow round shores.’ 
Mactaggart, Gallov. Encycl. 
Flying-bent. Molinia cceridea, L. — S. Scotland. ‘A long tough 
grass called Flying-Bent.’ Sutherlandsh. Stat. Acc. Scotl. (1845), 
XV. 70; Selkirksh., ib. iii. 62. 
Fog. add ‘All dry mountain moss.’ Ireland (Co. Donegal). 
Fog, Yorkshire, add Cumh. 
Fortune-teller, add The name occurs in Francis’ Little English 
Flora. 
Four o’clock. CEnothera biennis, L. — N. Dev. From its time of 
opening. 
Four Sisters. See Sisters. 
Fox and leaves. Digitalis purgmrea, L. — Ireland (Co. Donegal). 
Foxes’ Fern. Blechnum boreale, Sm. ‘ Is called Foxes Fern in 
many places of this land.’ Park. Tbeatr, 1043. See Corresp. of John 
Bay, p. 291. 
Foxglove, line 5, for Ellijllyn read Ellyllon. j| 
Fox-poison. Dajjline Laureola, L. — Line. Journ. Hort., April 4, 
1878, p. 263. I 
Foxtail. (1) add — " 
‘ That plant which in our dale 
We call Stag’s-horn or Fox’s tail.’ Wordsworth. 
Oumh. Trans. Cumb. Assoc., pt. vii. 153. ^ 
Fox-tongue. Scolopendriuin vulgar e, L. — Irel. (Co. Fermanagh). 
Science Gossip, 1882, p. 43. 
Foxtree. Digitalis purimrea, L. — Scotland. ‘The Kirk session of 
St. Cuthbert’s [1636] examined Heleine Profeit, whether she had 
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