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A DICTIONARY OF 
flower that grows on the tops of old houses.’ Borders of Tamar and 
Tavy, i. 274. Perhaps the Clematis is intended. 
(2) Nigella damascena, L. — Dev. Friend. Cfr. Love-entangle. 
Love-in a-chain. Sediun reflexum,'h. — Gumh. Trans. Cumb. Assoc, 
pt. vii. 161. 
Love-in-a-mist. (1) add Dev. 
(2) Cerastium tomentosuin, L. — Nhamp. (Brackley). 
Love-in-a-puzzle. Nigella damascena, L. — Dev. Friend. See 
Love-in-a-mist. 
Love-lies-bleeding. (1) Dev. add ‘This is an old flower, and 
common, called by some country women, Love lies a hleediny.'' Pea’s 
Flora (1676), p. 178. 
(3) Dielytra spectahilis, DC. Dev. Friend. 
Love Roses. Vihurmim Opulus, L. (garden form). — Herts. 
Lubba. add (2) Juncus squarrosus, L. — Shetland. Edmonston’s 
Flora, p. 12. 
Lucifer (a corruption of Lucerne). Medicago sativa, L. — Cornw. 
Luck. Anthyllis Vidneraria, L. — ‘The path [from Mnndesley to 
Cromer] is thickly bordered b}^ luck, as the natives call the pretty 
yellow flower of the Kidney- vetch.’ White’s Eastern England, quoted 
in Murray’s Guide to Norfolk, p. 248. 
Lucky’s Lines. Chorda Filum, L. — Shetland. Edmonston’s Flora, 
p. 55. Cfr. Lucky Minnie’ s Lines. 
Lucy Locket. Gardamine qjratensis, L. — Rati. N. & Q. 6th S. 
V. 447. 
Mace, Sweet. See Sweet Mace. 
Magweed. Chmjsardhemum Leucanthemum, L. (not localized). — 
Palmer’s Folk-Etymology. 
Mahogany, Irish. Alnus glutmosa, L. — Ireland (Co. Waterford). 
Maid-sweet. Sqnrcea Ulmaria, L. — ‘ Sweet cisley, by some called 
maid-sweet, that grows like a kex in wet meadows.’ Ellis, Country 
Husbandman, p. 252. 
Maiden Barberry. A variety of Berber is vulgaris, L., which pro- 
duces fruit without ‘ stones.’ Wariv. (Coventry). Loudon’s Gardener’s 
Mag. vii. 241 (1831). 
Maidenhair, add (8) Clematis Vitalha, L. — Bucks. (Newport 
Pagnell). 
Maiden’s Ruin. Artemisia Ahrotanuni, L. — Dev. Friend. 
Maise. Anthemis Cotida, L. — Sal. (Wellington). Shropsh. Word- 
book. 
Makinboy. add The name is earlier than Threlkeld ; Merret has 
Maketihoy. In the Appendix to the Legacie of Husbandry (quoted 
