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A DICTIONARY OF 
Jack-in-the-Hedge. Alliaria officinalis, Andrzj. add ‘ Jack in the 
hedge . . . that stinks like onions.’ Country Husbandman, p. 129. 
Leic. E. D. S. Gloss. See Jack-by-tbe-hedge. 
Jack-jump-about. add (4) ‘In the hard frosty spring of 1740 a poor- 
woman that lived at Studham, two miles distant from Gaddesden 
\_Herts.~\, gathered a herb that grew in the hedge, called Jack-jiimp- 
abouf, for boiling it with a piece of meat. It was like mint, and as 
hardly any other boiling herb was then to be got, she made use 
of this. One child died by it, and another had like to have had the 
same fate, and the mother narrowly escaped, but the hog that eat the 
pot-liquor was killed by it.’ Country Housewife, p. 150. This we 
cannot identify, but it seems different from the preceding. 
Jack-o’-both-sides {Leic. E. D. S. Gloss), or Jack-o’-two-sides. 
Ranumidus arvensis, L. — Sal. (Wellington). Shropsh. Word-book. 
Jack-run-i’-Country. Convolvuhis sepium, L. — Yks. H. & Q. 6th S. 
iv. 167. 
Jacob’s Ladder. (3) add Dev. Friend. 
(6) Sedum Telepliium, L. — Kent (Rochester). 
(7) Delphinium Consolida, L. — Dev. Friend. 
Jaundice-berry, add ‘ The wood of this tree is said to be such 
an andidote against the yellow jaundice, that, if a person constantly 
feeds himself with a spoon made of it, it will prevent and cure this 
disease, while it is in its infancy.’ Ellis, Modern Husbandman, II. 
viii. 157 (1750). 
Jealousy. Sedum rupest re, L. — Sal. (Pulverbatch, gardens). Shropsh. 
Word-book. 
Jenny-Green-Teeth, add Lane. E. FI. S. Gloss., where it is spelt 
Jinny, and is described as ‘ the green scum upon ponds, which perhaps 
includes various Confervee.' 
Jenny Wren. Geranium Rohertianum,!^. — Som. ‘The usual name. 
I never heard any other in the dialect.’ Mr. Elworthy. 
Jerusalem-Cowslip. add Norf. 
Jerusalem Star, add (3) Hypericum calycinum, L. — Sal. (Pul- 
verbatch, gardens). Shropsh. W’'ord-book. 
Jeshamy. Jasmine. E. Anglia. E. D. S. Gloss, B 20. Jasminum 
officinale, L. 
Jews Ear. add (5) the Tomato. Ip/copersicim escidentum. Mill. 
Hants. E. D. S. Gloss. 
JOHN-GO'TO-BED-AT-NOON. add (3) Oruithogalum umhellatuni, L. — 
Sal. (Newport). Shropsh. Word-book. 
John the Baptist and his Cousins. ‘John the Baptist and his 
cousins, with the wool and hyssop, are for mares, and ailing dogs, and 
fowls that have the jaundice.’ Dev. (Exmoor). Lorna Doone, p. 106. 
This seems to be a plant-name, but we cannot identify it. 
Johnnie Cranes. Caltha palnstris, L, — K'hamp. (Brackley). 
