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Old Man’s Beard. (1) add Cornw.; Oxf. (Standlake). 
add (5) Hypericum calycinum, L. — Dev. Friend. 
Old Man’s Flannel. Verhascum Thapsus, L. — Som. (Bath). 
Old Man’s Love, add Suff. 
Old-rot. Heracleum Sphondylium, L. — Som. Cfr. Eltrot. 
Old Wife’s Darning Needles. Scandix Pecten, L. — Yks. (Cleveland). 
Old Wives’ Tow. The Bog-Moss [Sphagnum). ‘ In the north of 
Ireland, they, by way of joque, call it old tvives tow, and curse them 
that bnryed it, when it hinders them in cutting the turf.’ Phil. Trans. 
XV. 950 (1684), 
Old Woman’s Needle. Scandix Pecten, L. — Hants. (New Forest). 
J. E. Wise’s New Forest (ed. 3), p. 281. 
Old Woman’s Nightcap, add Oxf. (Standlake). 
add (2) A species of Campanula. Sal. 
Old Woman’s Orchis. Orchis purpurea, Jacq. Kent (Sevenoaks). 
‘ From the fancied resemblance of the flower to a lady dressed in 
a poke-bonnet with a best bib on and wide sleeves.’ Eev. C. H. 
Fielding. Pratt gives Lady Orchis as a Kent name for the plant. 
One o’clocks. Seed heads of Leontodon Taraxacum, L. — Lame. 
(Preston). Science Gossip, 1882, p. 164. ‘ The one dcloclc, the very 
dial of poetry.’ Borders of Tamar and Tavy, i. 273 : is this the same 
as the preceding ? 
Onion, Bog. add ‘In Westmoreland, and also the adjoining 
division of Lancashire known as Lancashire north of the sands, the 
rhizomes of Osmunda regalis are in high popular esteem as a remedial 
agent [for bruises, sprains, &c.]. The plant is vulgarly known by the 
name of bog onion.'' Phyt. v. 30, O.S. Ireland, Mart. Mill. 
Onion Couch, add Glouc. (Cirencester). 
Onion, Sea. add (2) Scilla maritima, L. — Turn. Names. 
Oodbine. Lonicera Periclimenum, L. Oxf. (Standlake). 
Orchal. add Petiver (Gazophylacium, t. 7) says of his ‘ Muscus 
Ceranoides Palmensis comis digitatis ’ : ‘I take this to be the same 
which Thevetus says grows in the Canary Islands, especially Ferro, on 
the Eocky Mountains, where they call it Oricelle .... Mr. James 
Cunninghame, who gathered it at Palma, one of the Canary Isles, 
says they call it there Orcliili, and use it for Dying.’ 
Orchis Grass. ‘ Mr. Peacey has likewise cultivated the orchis grass, 
a broad-leaved grass, that springs directly after the scythe, in mowing 
ground.’ Ann. Agric. Glouc. Probably Dactylis glomerata, L. See 
Orchard Grass. 
Organy. add Hants. E. D. S. Gloss. 
Ovest. Fruit of Quercus Rohur, L. — Hants (New Forest). ‘ The 
mast and acorns are collectively known as “the turn out,” or 
“ovest.” ’ J. E. Wise’s New Forest (ed. 3), p. 183, 
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